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o BioTime Inc., of Berkeley, Calif., reported the results of its studies in which rats survived the loss of about half their blood, a loss so severe that it caused them to stop breathing. After 12 minutes of respiratory arrest, the animals were resuscitated by the intravenous infusion of 6 percent hetastarch in lactated electrolyte injection, which is BioTime's blood plasma volume expander. They were then placed in a pressurized atmosphere of 100 percent oxygen. Six of nine rats that were resuscitated with the plasma expander and treated with oxygen at two atmospheres above normal atmospheric pressure survived long term. Only one of 11 rats treated similarly, but ...

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