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I dont read tribe enoguh to know if this is a repeat thread so just in case, i found this to be real amusing/interesting....
Ananova :
Scientists hold 'rave concert' for drugged mice
Scientists have been giving mice drugs and playing them records by The Prodigy.
Researchers wanted to find out if the music had any effect on the way methamphetamines are absorbed by the body.
They found that music with a strong beat, even a piece by Bach, increased the damaging effects of the drug.
But even though more mice died during and after The Prodigy tunes than the Bach one scientists think there is no real diference between the two - the key thing is the type of noise they create.
Loud music alone didn't harm the mice - those given injections of plain salt water instead of speed fell asleep during the "rave".
Mice on methamphetamine alone usually charge around for half an hour, lapse into a repetitive movement, then charge around for another half-hour becoming normal again. But four of the 40 mice exposed to Bach died during or after the experiment, while seven of the 40 Prodigy mice died.
Jenny Morton, of Cambridge University, said: "It seems that listening to pulsatile music strengthens the toxic effects of methamphetamine."
She also noted that drugged mice subjected to both kinds of music also had more disturbing behaviour - remaining in one spot but swaying backwards and forwards.
She told New Scientist: "If you saw how the mice behaved, you wouldn't want to take methamphetamine."
Story filed: 19:08 Wednesday 31st October 2001
Ananova :
Scientists hold 'rave concert' for drugged mice
Scientists have been giving mice drugs and playing them records by The Prodigy.
Researchers wanted to find out if the music had any effect on the way methamphetamines are absorbed by the body.
They found that music with a strong beat, even a piece by Bach, increased the damaging effects of the drug.
But even though more mice died during and after The Prodigy tunes than the Bach one scientists think there is no real diference between the two - the key thing is the type of noise they create.
Loud music alone didn't harm the mice - those given injections of plain salt water instead of speed fell asleep during the "rave".
Mice on methamphetamine alone usually charge around for half an hour, lapse into a repetitive movement, then charge around for another half-hour becoming normal again. But four of the 40 mice exposed to Bach died during or after the experiment, while seven of the 40 Prodigy mice died.
Jenny Morton, of Cambridge University, said: "It seems that listening to pulsatile music strengthens the toxic effects of methamphetamine."
She also noted that drugged mice subjected to both kinds of music also had more disturbing behaviour - remaining in one spot but swaying backwards and forwards.
She told New Scientist: "If you saw how the mice behaved, you wouldn't want to take methamphetamine."
Story filed: 19:08 Wednesday 31st October 2001
