Re: 92'nd update on fly longevity experiments

From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 16:32:46 MDT

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    Maybe they are living longer, but are they any smarter? How about those
    tiny T mazes?

    POC
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    On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Doug Skrecky wrote:

    > This is the 92'nd update of my fly longevity experiments. Average
    > temperature was 20.7 C during this run. Estimated maximal longevity using
    > the formula (363 - T*11.2) is 131 days.
    > In the carob 1/2 tsp bottle some flies retained the ability to fly
    > after all the flies in the other bottles were dead. This raises the
    > interesting possibility that although carob might not inhibit viral
    > mediated mortality, it might inhibit motor neuron degeneration.
    > Alternatively, this result might be due to chance.
    >
    > Run #92 Percent Survival on Day
    > supplement 9 14 21 28 33 38 43 49 55 61 66 71 77 83 88 93
    > ___________________________________________________________________
    > control 92 92 92 92 77 77 69 62 54 31 23 15 0 - - -
    > carob 1/8 tsp 94 88 88 82 71 47 47 47 23 17 17 6 0 - - -
    > carob 1/2 tsp 87 80 80 80 67 67 67 53 23 20 20 20 20 13 7 0
    > chromium HVP 0.5 mg 75 75 69 69 69 63 50 50 31 25 19 6 0 - - -
    > chromium HVP 2 mg 85 55 50 40 40 15 15 10 5 5 5 5 0 - - -
    > hops 1/8 tsp 77 62 54 54 54 54 46 31 23 15 0 - - - - -
    > hops 1/2 tsp 88 69 69 69 69 50 50 50 38 25 25 0 - - - -
    >
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