Scientists create first zombie dogs

Zombie Dogs (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html) So... I know its a few years old but I have never heard of anything like this, so I thought I would share. SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre. However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours, But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss. During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death. Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved. Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts. Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage. "The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.

That is insane, but the thought of it just kinda creeps me out..guess i have watched too many zombie movies

crazy to think about

damn, id like to see reports on this

That is insane, but the thought of it just kinda creeps me out..guess i have watched too many zombie movies Better stock up on guns and ammo for when it gets out of control!!!

sound slike BS to be, personally. i found this articleont he same page a lot more entertaining. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22321285-23109,00.html?from=mostpop

shoot them in the head :lol:

That is insane, but the thought of it just kinda creeps me out..guess i have watched too many zombie movies fuck man my pitbull's staring right at me as if he wants to ask me somethin :eek:

and 28 days later.....

sound slike BS to be, personally. I looked up the research company and this is their latest news on resuscitation. Rats live after 60 minutes of death (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17481798&ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) Read the red all together as if that was the only part that was written. It'll make more sense that way. :thumbup: Emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR) is a new approach for resuscitation of exsanguination cardiac arrest (CA) victims to buy time for surgical hemostasis. EPR uses a cold aortic flush to induce deep hypothermic preservation, followed by resuscitation with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We previously reported that 20min of EPR was feasible with intact outcome. In this report, we tested the limits for EPR in rats. Adult male isoflurane-anesthetized rats were subjected to rapid hemorrhage (12.5ml over 5min), followed by esmolol/KCl-induced CA and 1min of no-flow. EPR was then induced by perfusion with 270ml of ice-cold Plasma-Lyte to decrease body temperature to 15 degrees C. After 60min (n=7) or 75min (n=7) of EPR, resuscitation was attempted with CPB over 60min, blood transfusion, correction of acid-base balance and electrolyte disturbances, and mechanical ventilation for 2h. Survival, overall performance category (OPC: 1=normal, 5=death), neurological deficit score (NDS), and histological damage score (HDS) were assessed in survivors on day 3. While all rats after 60min EPR survived, only two out of seven rats after 75min EPR survived (p<0.05). All rats after 60min EPR achieved OPC 1 and normal NDS by day 3. Survivors after 75min EPR achieved best OPC 3 (p<0.05 vs. 60min EPR). HDS of either brain or individual viscera was not statistically different after 60 versus 75min EPR, except for kidneys (0+/-0 vs. 1.9+/-1.3, respectively; p<0.05), with a strong trend toward greater injury in all extracerebral organs in the 75-min EPR group (p<0.06). Histological findings were dominated by cardiac lesions observed in both groups and acute renal tubular and liver necrosis in the 75-min EPR group. In conclusion, we have shown that 60min of EPR after exsanguination CA is associated with survival and favorable neurological outcome, while 75min of EPR results in significant mortality and neurological damage in survivors. Surprisingly, extracerebral lesions predominated at 75-min EPR group. This model should serve as a screening model both for testing new pharmacological adjuncts to improve survival after exsanguination CA, and for elucidating the underlying mechanisms of ischemia/reperfusion injury. They killed the rats and brought them back to life after 60 mins!!!

check out www.alcor.org. i am going how about you? life insurance pays the bill too. see ya in 300 years:thumbup:

i dont think it will work on people :hmmm: but how would i know ? :headscrat

http://www.alcor.org/Library/videos/LimitlessFuture.html check it out

That is pretty wild...all i can say is that if anyone does this...they better get unthawed quick and ride till they pass cuz that's about as much fun as they are gonna get...who knows what kinda parts would be all jacked up from that...i think i will wait another 20 yrs and find out where this goes...but i don't put the thought of doing something like that down at all...

Reminds me of Flatliners.

Imagine the population problem this has potential to create.

not really zombies, kinda miss leading. Zombies are like the walking dead, they bite you and you turn into a zombie. LOL. But it is interesting. Kinda scary, like we can cheat death now. That's just really weird to be dead for 3 hours and come back. That just changes everything. But this is more like medical type of stuff, putting people into induced comas so you can work on them, etc etc etc.

sound slike BS to be, personally. Yeah, well, you don't know my ex-wife!:lol:

this is creepy

kinda creepy