Suspended animation experiments to send mice in a trance

From Newlaunches.com:

Many science fiction stories evolve around intergalactic travel by humans who have been kept in suspended animation by generations of caretakers who travel with them in spaceships. Although the real trials of such a phenomenon have been successful in conducting heart transplants or surgery, it's practical uses are speculative. However Warren Zapol, MD, chief of Anesthesia and Critical Care at MGH and senior author of the Anesthesiology study has another use of this. He thinks it could be used to get rid of the oldest problem known to humanity. RATS! Yes you heard right, if rats are given low dosages of hydrogen sulfide they could end in a trance and not bother us.

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