Doug,
Thank you so much for your messages over the last year. While so many others online blow hot air at each other, you are finding and highlighting genuinely INTERESTING leads toward the extension of life. Well done!
At 01:45 PM 98/9/3 -0700, Doug Skrecky wrote:
>Authors
> Crowe JH. Carpenter JF. Crowe LM.
>Institution
> Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
> 95616, USA. jhcrowe:ucdavis.edu
>Title
> The role of vitrification in anhydrobiosis. [Review] [86
> refs]
...
>Additional note by poster:
>
> Practical application of anhydrobiosis on human organ systems at present
>can not use sugars because of their very poor penetration ability. Animals
>which can enter anhydrobiosis have special sugar transporters for example
>on their cell membranes.
> However some sugar alcohols like erythritol readily penetrate human
>tissue, are completely non-toxic (not metabolized), and offer the
>potential for good freeze-dry preservation of tissue, albet at storage
>temperatures somewhat below ambient.