Strategies in Cold: Natural Torpidity and Thermogenesis,
Abstract
Contents: Natural Torpidity, Problems, and Perspectives; Circannual Cycles in Hibernators; Shallow, Daily Torpor-A Thermoregulatory Adaptation; Energetic and Field Aspects of Mammalian Torpor-The Richardson's Ground Squirrel; The Economics of Temperature Regulation and Torpor in Nonmammalian Organisms; Neuronal Models of Temperature Regulation in Euthermic and Hibernating Mammals-An Alternate Model for Hibernation; Sleep and Hibernation- Electrophysiological and Thermoregulatory Homologies; Thermosensitivity of Preoptic Neurons and Hypothalamic Integrative Function in Hibernators and Nonhibernators; Time Sequence of Physiological Changes during Hibernation-The Significance of Serotonergic Pathways; Autonomic Regulation of Hibernation by Citellus and Eptesicus; Cold Tolerance of Mammalian Cells-Prevalence and Properties; Membrane Lipid PHase-Transitions-A Possible Biological Response to Hibernation; Metabolic Economy at the Biochemical Level-The Hibernator; Aspects of Metabolic Endocrine Changes in Hibernation; The Biochemical Mechanism of Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue; Biochemical Aspects of Nonshivering Thermogenesis; Neurohumoral Regulation of Nonshivering Thermogenesis in Mammals; Significance and Possible Central Mechanisms of Thermoregulatory Threshold Deviations in Thermal Adaptation; Adaptation of Man to Cold.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA063100
Entities
People
- Jack W. Hudson
- Lawrence C. H. Wang
Organizations
- University of Alberta