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> To find out, Takanori Takebe, a gastroenterologist from Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and his colleagues tested several approaches to ventilating the intest
by virgildotcodes 4y ago
> To find out, Takanori Takebe, a gastroenterologist from Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and his colleagues tested several approaches to ventilating the intestines of mice and pigs that were deprived briefly of oxygen. In one group of 11 mice, four had their intestines scrubbed to thin the mucosal lining and improve oxygen absorption. Next, the researchers injected pure, pressurized oxygen into the rectums of the scrubbed mice and four of the seven unscrubbed ones.
> Then, the researchers withdrew oxygen from the animals, making them "hypoxic." The three unscrubbed mice that received no intestinal oxygen survived for a median of 11 minutes. Mice with unscrubbed intestines that received oxygen through their anuses lasted 18 minutes. Only the ventilated mice with brushed intestines lived through the hourlong experiment, with a survival rate of 75%, the researchers report today in Med.
This is fucking horrifying.
- krageon 4y agoSome ethics board out there looked at this proposal and thought "well, that looks fine to me!". That thought is almost as horrifying as the torture these scientists visited upon these defenseless mice.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoYeah not sure the ends justify the means here, that's for sure.
- niemandhier 4y agoThey do. If this can be extended to humans, the resulting technology would have saved hundreds of lives during Covid alone, not to think of burn victims.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoI mean maybe eventually some method is discovered, but this doesn't have an immediate human application. I don't think we're going to start scrubbing intestines to treat covid anytime soon.
- Psyladine 4y agoIf you don't want to know how the sausage is made, mate...you may think different if you will end up laid up with non-functioning lungs and only this niche medical apparatus available.
- thirtyfivecent 4y ago
- jamal-kumar 4y agoWhat ever works in a bio lab before? There are devices that are made to turn live mice into a fine slurry to study their contents
- lm28469 4y ago
- whythre 4y agoThe ones I am familiar with involve cattle being instantly killed by a high pressure tap delivered between the eyes. Gruesome aspects of butchery like disemboweling happens after the creatures are dead, not before.
- lm28469 4y agoOh yeah that's what I thought too, just buy the "premium" meat, they surely take care of their animal, after all that's what they base their whole image on. Then you see a few leaked videos from "ultra ethical cruelty free 3000" slaughterhouses and you understand it's just marketing BS. This is from one of France's "cruelty free" slaughterhouses, focusing on "animal well being" which is supposedly more "responsible" NSFL: Don't click if you don't want to see dead/suffering pigs and piglets, a dude smashing live piglets against a metal rail, mutilated pigs living in the dark with barely any space between them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Owo7jGtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Owo7jGtU If you don't live next to a farm and buy straight from the farmer there is absolutely no way to tell the meat you eat actually is cruelty free. It's all empty promises and feel good marketing
- virgildotcodes 4y agoI mean even buying straight from small farms the meat isn't cruelty free. The small farms still primarily ship their animals for slaughter to the same slaughterhouses, or "best case" scenario they slit the animals' throats themselves. Would you consider having your throat slit to be a cruelty free way to die? Watch some videos of Chechen soldiers having their throats slit, or people being killed in that fashion by Isis, and tell me if it seems cruelty free to you.
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