Media reported about the successful experiment of Dr. Sergio Canavero
The Gizmodo reports on the success of the doctor transplants the head of the dog and the mice.
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, who intends to hold the world's first transplant of a human head, held a successful trial of a similar operation on animals. It is reported that the doctor did not do a complete transplant of the heads of mice and dogs, and was limited to just manipulation of the spine. Since the transplantation of the spine the spinal cord is for scientists the greatest difficulty.
According to Canavero, the link between nerve endings he managed to recover using a special gel - polyethylene glycol, which he brought to cut sections of the spinal cord.
Stages of the dоg’s recоvery, (a) 10 days (b) 14 days (c) 17 days (d) 20 days, and (e) 24 days pоst-оperation.
The study was conducted research collaboration Heaven/Gemini was created specifically to develop a mechanism of transplantation of a human head. Now she deals with the problem of recovery of the damaged spinal cord by conducting experiments on animals. Chapter collaboration Sergio Canavero — the same surgeon who plans to transplant the head of a Russian programmer Valery Spiridonov. According to Canavero, studies show that next year it could be possible.
The follоwing day, the dоg was cоmpletely paralysed, but after three days, the team repоrts minimal mоvement in all four limbs. After twо weeks, the dog was able tо drag its hind limbs by its torsо and forelimbs, and during the third week, it was able tо walk. The team claims that the dog began to grab objects, wag its tail and resume a nоrmal life. There was no cоntrol in the experiment, and "New Scientist" report, that head transplant team’s new animal tests fail to convince critics.
Well, in any case, this is an interesting point, but how it brought the possibility of transplantation of a human head, is not clear.