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Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero planning in the foreseeable future transplant a person’s head successfully perform this operation on mice. At least that’s how he claims.
The doctor severed the spinal cord of rodents, virtually decapitating animals and then restored it. After vertebrotomy – complete intersections of the spinal cord – the wounds were treated with saline, and in mice were injected within 3 days from the completion of the operation antibiotics.
The spinal cord of 9 experimental animals was restored by special technique. Italian resorted to use ultrafine carbon knife, as well as polyethylene glycol with the purpose of gluing nerve fibers. Rodents recovered motor function, and after 2 days they began to walk. Not one the mouse did not live more than a month, but Canavero is convinced that he the right way. Critics of his project said that shared spinal cord cannot be restored in any living creature at all.
Now skeptics from the scientific world attacked the surgeon sharply allegations of fraud. So, according to the employee Case Western University Reserve in Ohio Jerry Silver, Sergio and his research team did not provide one hundred percent evidence that the spine at least one subsequently The “saved” mouse was actually completely cut. Moreover, Professor Silver claims surgeons failed examination of the microscopic structure of restored tissue spinal cord, from which we can conclude that doctors themselves do not confident in the success of operations, and therefore simply create it visibility.
Recall that Canavero sets the task of his entire career to separate the head of a paralyzed person and sew it on the body dead donor. In 2015, a 30-year-old volunteered to volunteer. moment Russian Valery Spiridonov paralyzed as a result spinal muscular atrophy, however now the neurosurgeon is planning join forces with his Chinese counterpart Zhen Xiaoping and perform the first head transplant surgery on some a citizen of China.
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