demikhov in A Sentence

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Prior to Demikhov, this was a feat that many believed to be impossible.

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In 1954, Soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov, revealed his masterpiece to the world: a two-headed dog.

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On 1954, soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov, revealed his masterpiece to the world: a two-headed dog.

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Vladimir Demikhov was not the first to graft the head of a dog to the body of another.

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Demikhov is also known to have performed the first heart transplant in 1946, in this instance on a dog;

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Although Demikhov's research has been(justifiably) called out for horrific animal cruelty, it did help pave the way to human organ transplants.

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Of course, scientists being good scientists, many were skeptical that Demikhov could actually perform such a procedure successfully- they wanted direct proof.

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Demikhov then further“endeared” himself to any potential readers by saying that Brodyaga was Russian for“Tramp” and that he personally felt the dog was quite lucky since“two heads are better than one”.

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Prior to the actual operation, Demikhov also introduced the interviewing journalist to a dog called Palma, which he revealed had two hearts thanks to an operation he performed on the animal a few days earlier.

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The two dogs survived for only four days before dying from complications of the surgery which came as a surprise to Demikhov who claimed that some of his previous subjects had survived for as long as 29 days.

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In the end, the two dogs survived for four days before dying from complications of the surgery, which came as a surprise to Demikhov who revealed that some of his previous subjects had survived for as long as 29 days.

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Demikhov is said have been inspired by the work of his peer, Dr Sergei Brukhonenko, another Soviet medical pioneer known for inventing a machine capable of artificially simulating the functionality of the heart and lungs, albeit on a temporary basis.

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With this latter device, Demikhov was able to take over the cardiac function of a dog for around five hours, an experiment notable for being“the first ever in which circulation was maintained in an animal whose heart had been excised”.

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All in all, it's recorded that Demikhov performed this experiment“over 24 times” with varying degrees of success- success in this context meaning that the subjects survived the ordeal and even displayed some awareness of their surroundings and the ability to respond to stimuli.

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Despite the potential implications of Demikhov's research, this particular bit of his life's work was largely dismissed by the wider scientific community with the exception of a few scientists, most notably American neuroscientist Dr. Robert White, who infamously and successfully repeated the experiment using rhesus monkeys in the 1970s.

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The resulting article, titled“Russia Two-Headed Dog” documented the entire transplant procedure including the preliminary preparations, during which Demikhov introduced the journalist writing the article to the two dogs he was about to sew together, Shavka, a small 9 year old female, and Brodyaga, a large stray of which little was known.

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Sometime in the early 1950s, spurred on by the success of his experiments involving the transplantation of organs in dogs, including several experiments in which he would managed to successfully transplant multiple organs of the same type into the same animal, Demikhov began toying with the idea of transplanting the most valuable organ of all- the brain.

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Beyond the fact that a monkey head transplant is much closer to the procedure needed for a human head transplant, which is the end goal of this research, Demikhov had attached the head of one dog to the body of another, still living dog, while White went one step further and transplanted the head of one monkey onto a headless monkey body.

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