Yeah, yeah, there's unanticipated side effects.Fifteen minutes after researchers intentionally paralyzed this rat by dropping a weight on its back, they injected the rodent with Brilliant Blue G dye, a derivative of common food coloring Blue Number One.
Obviously there may be something to this blue dye treatment. Unfortunately the article does not address whether any rats recovered from similar injuries without blue dye injections or other forms of treatment.The dye reduced inflammation of the spinal cord, which allowed the rats to take clumsy steps--but not walk--within weeks, a new study says. In both rats and people, secondary inflammation following spinal cord trauma causes more lasting damage than the initial injury: Swelling sparks a small "stroke," which stops blood flow and eventually kills off the surrounding tissue.
Hmmmmm. No clinical effect. Even without nerve damage, mix this stuff with Viagra and I'll give it a play. Get a job with the Blue Men Group. Call it the Real Happy Old Blue Men Group.Other than blue skin and eyes, "we can find no clinical effect on the rat," said Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester Medical
Center in Rochester, New York.
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Decisions, decisions...
Be paralyzed or have permanent blue balls???
Interesting post. That picture is just too creepy.
Mix it with Viagra. You'll amuse and amaze...
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