Comments on: Blue Rats Walk Again

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:48:32 +0000

Nikki- I personally know Maiken. She is under no circumstance cruel or a cold blooded woman. She loves the pets in her household and only wants to help people. I’ve also been in her lab. The mmice and rats are treated very humanely. These animals are bred for this purpose- you should only be thankful because they may save your life one day. :)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:06:46 +0000

cruel cruel cruel! i dont care if this could help us in the future! The poor things could’t walk and some were granted that again and some were not!? and i suppose that these scientist just happened to find a rat with a broken back while walking down the street?! NO! So unfair i hate animal testing it benefits us 0%!

By: peg

peg — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:43:15 +0000

I agree with Bob. A large supply of blue M&M’s should be the first item in everyone’s first aid kit.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:56:24 +0000

IV injections, eh? So no massive bottles of Gatorade Blue after you hurt yourself? Probably for the better; I get a bit queasy if I drink too much of that stuff. Still, it’d be cool to have emergency bags of M&M blues at places where back injuries are common. In the first aid kit, right next to the bandages…

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By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:07 +0000

Basically, P2X7R is a gateway into the cell that is activated by ATP. So the P2X7R antagonist inactivates this gateway.

By: dance

dance — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:41:14 +0000

Everyone seems to be ignoring the phrase used twice here, that BBG “is similar to” and “resembles” FD&C Blue No. 1. What is it really? Where does it come from? I may be a little off, but I believe I recently read that the FD&C Blue dye is animal derived, so no matter how you look at that, some animal, somewhere is being involved. Not good to begin with.

MedScape Today says: July 30, 2009 â€”Brilliant Blue G (BBG), a dye used to visualize transparent tissues in eye surgery and a cousin to the food additive that makes Gatorade blue, is also a candidate for preventing paralysis after spinal-cord injury (SCI).

Intravenous (IV) injections of BBG dramatically reduced secondary damage in rats with SCI and had the rats walking within days, according to data reported in the July 28 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

BBG was given by systemic injection, unlike most other neuroprotectants, which require injection into the damaged spinal cord.
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Can anyone tell me what a P2X7R Antagonist is?

Thanks!

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:32:29 +0000

Wow – tastes delicious, cures paralysis, and creates designer mice! I’m buying stock!

By: EL

EL — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:46:34 +0000

If all rats were as cute as the little blue guy in the picture, I would probably have two of them as pets.

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By: the creature

the creature — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:53:14 +0000

Nikki, I would hardly classify neurological research as “torturing and killing animals.”

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:23:23 +0000

Ian, you are so right. I did really well betting on football following my rat Humphrey’s picks, until he died. He only missed twice in his two years. He was terrible with baseball, though.