[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > After a minute the > mouse was running around again and seemed no worse off.
"Seemed" being the key word here. If memory serves the biggest problem with being immersed in these types of oxygen carrying inert fluids is that they leak into the body, presumably through the lungs. Eventually that gunk ends up in the liver which becomes cirrhotic. Since the time scale was so short that really wasn't much of a safety demonstration. There are lots of things that could be injected into a mouse and it would run around happily for a couple of hours and then be dead in a few days. At the more extreme toxic end of the spectrum, here are a couple most people have heard of: ricin and alpha-amanitin. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
