Blood Substitutes

Hextend and Pentalyte Data Presented

Published in Blood Weekly, May 13th, 1996

BioTime Inc., Berkeley, California, announced that research results with Hextend were presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, held in San Diego, California, April 28 - May 1, 1996.

Dr. George V. Letsou, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, presented the results of his research on ice-cold blood substitution with the blood plasma volume expander and hypothermic blood substitute, Hextend, at the meeting. In the study, whole body perfusion with cold, oxygenated Hextend was shown to protect the heart and brain of laboratory animals during four hours of deep hypothermia.

Letsou said, "chilled blood...

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