It's alive, zombie dogs.

hooroo · Jun 27, 2005

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html

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 a this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

Duing 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.
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Two Sandwiches · Jun 27, 2005

I don't get it though...if they're perfectly normal when they come back, why do they call them zombies?

Invisible Fan · Jun 27, 2005

EddieWasSnubbed said:

I don't get it though...if they're perfectly normal when they come back, why do they call them zombies?
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Because of their intense craving for brains.

Chance · Jun 27, 2005

Old News.

Kiefer Sutherland and Julie Roberts were doing this back in the 80s.

codell · Jun 27, 2005

so how does the brain tissue survive?

codell · Jun 27, 2005

Chance said:

Old News.

Kiefer Sutherland and Julie Roberts were doing this back in the 80s.
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Smithers: Oh, Mr. Burns, we'll thaw you out the second they discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in the back. How're we doing, boys?

Frink: Well, we're up to fifteen!

Scientists: Yay!

PhiSlammaJamma · Jun 27, 2005

"sometimes, dead is bettah." - stephen king.

KingCheetah · Jun 27, 2005

Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs

The Real Shady · Jun 27, 2005

KingCheetah said:

Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs
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Sweet! I want one.

MadMax · Jun 27, 2005

uh. no thanks. not for me or my dog.

droxford · Jun 27, 2005

EddieWasSnubbed said:

I don't get it though...if they're perfectly normal when they come back, why do they call them zombies?
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Invisible Fan said:

Because of their intense craving for brains.
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ROTFLMAO!!! Oh man - that was just perfect!

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