CIRCULATION IN MAMMALIAN HIBERNATION

Abstract

This review of the control of circulation during hibernation begins with a general description of hibernation as it occurs in various groups of mammals and outlines the difficulties in the physiological study of hibernation. There fol lows a more detailed description of the three phases of hibernation - entering hibernation, in deep hibernation, and waking from the hiber nating state. The bulk of the review concerns research on rodents, which have been the most intensively studied of the animals which hiber nate. It is emphasized that hibernation, at least in this groups, is a precisely controlled series of physiological changes in which the animal maintains a homeostatic condition at all times in spite of profound changes in body temperature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0406621

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  • C. P. Lyman

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  • Harvard Medical School

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  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkaloids
  • Animal Structures
  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Blood
  • Body Temperature
  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Cells
  • Health Services
  • Low Temperature
  • Nervous System
  • Peripheral Nervous System
  • Physiology
  • Rodents
  • Skeletal Muscle
  • Sympathetic Nervous System
  • Vagus Nerve
  • Veins

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