Life in the Cold - Ecological, Physiological, and Molecular Mechanisms

List of contents

Preface -- Keynote Address -- Multiple Pathways to Spring -- Invited Contributions -- Comparison of Thermal Responses between Rest and Exercise During Cold Water Immersion -- Seasonality of Daily Torpor in a Migratory Hummingbird -- Getting by on High: Ecological Energetics of Arctic and Alpine Grouse -- Hibernation in Birds: Comparisons with Mammals -- The Physiology of Hibernation in an Egg-Laying Mammal, the Echidna -- Energetics of Social Hibernation -- Factors Affecting Hibernation Commencement and Spring Emergence in Siberian Chipmunks (Eutamias sibiricus) -- Thermoregulatory "Strategies" of Two Apodemus Species Inhabiting a Cold Environment On Mount Hermon -- Individual Energetic Strategies in Winter-Adapted Djungarian Hamsters: The Relation between Daily Torpor, Locomotion, and Food Consumption -- Sexual Differences in Hibernaculum Contents of Richardson's Ground Squirrels: Males Store Food -- Patterns of Body Temperature Change in Hibernating Arctic Ground Squirrels -- Effects of Captivity on Peak Rates of Oxygen Consumption of Winter-Caught Deer Mice and Black-Capped Chickadees -- Dietary Lipids and Thermal Physiology -- Regulation of Gut Structure and Function in Hibernators -- Metabolic Fuel Utilization During Hibernation -- Energy Requirements of Hibernating Alpine Marmots -- Dift Affects Hibernation in Turkish Hamsters -- Circadian Rhythmicity and Photoperiodism in the Djungarian Hamster -- Photoperiodic Control of Reproduction and Hibernation in the European Hamster (Cricetus Cricetus): Morphological and Functional Analysis -- Regulation of Cardiac Cytosolic Free Ca2+ At Low Temperature in the Richardson's Ground Squirrel -- Plasma Membrane Proton Transport and Hamster Brown Adipocyte Thermogenesis -- Seasonal Lipolysis in Hibernators -- Sleep, Hypothermia, and Hibernation: Metabolic Rate and the Control of Breathing Pattern in Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels -- Temperature Regulation, Enzyme Kinetics, and Metabolic Depression in Mammalian Hibernation -- What is a Bout of Hibernation? -- Calcium and Temperature Dependent Neural Mechanisms in ca Pyramidal Cells in the Rat and Hamster Hippocampal Slice -- The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Mediates Rhythms of Hibernation and Daily Torpor in Rodents -- On Possible Mechanisms of the Septohippocampal System Participation in the Neural Control of Hibernation -- Is Endogenous Opioid Involved in Hibernation? -- Immediate Early Gene Expression in Brain Across the Hibernation Cycle -- Possible Involvement of Endogenous Adenosine in Hibernation -- Adaptive Changes of Hypothalamic Thermosensitive Neurons after Exposure to Cold Environmental Temperature -- Regulation of Brown Adipose Tissue Function in Cold-Adapted Animals: Lack of ß3-Adrenergic Receptors in Brown Adipose Tissue of Cold-Adapted Guinea Pigs -- Why are Brown-Fat Cells from Cold-Acclimated Animals Not Better? -- Species Distribution of Brown Adipose Tissue: Characterization of Adipose Tissues from Uncoupling Protein and Its mRNA -- Genes in the Cold: A Survey of the Regulation of Gene Expression in Brown Adipose Tissue -- Brown Adipose Tissue and the Uncoupling Protein UCP: Cellular and Molecular Studies -- Muscle Function in Hibernators -- Increased Lipoprotein Lipase Activity in Brown Adipose Tissue During Arousal of the Hibernating Garden Dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) -- Lipoprotein Lipase is Differentially Regulated in Brown and White Adipose Tissue During Seasonal Acclimatization of the Djungarian Hamster -- Membrane Adaptations in Ectotherms and Endotherms -- Handling of Sodium ion by the Plasma Membrane: Differences That Account for Failure of Cold-Sensitive Cells -- Differential Gene Expression in the Liver During Hibernation in Ground Squirrels -- Perspectives on Molecular Function in Hibernators: Insights from Quiescent States of Invertebrates -- Identification and Characterization of Novel Types of Plasma Protein Specific for Hibernation in Rodents -- Myocardial ß-Adrenergic Receptor Complex in Hibernation -- Molecular Control of Prehibernation Brown Fat Growth in Arctic Ground Squirrels -- Hypothalamic Neuropeptides, Metabolic Hormones, and Seasonal Fattening in Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels -- Integrated Physiological Responses Promoting Anuran Freeze Tolerance -- Muscle Disuse in Hibernation: Gene Expression and Morphology -- Molecular Mechanisms for Selective Retention of Essential Fatty Acids During Hibernation -- Point Counterpoint -- Does Nonshivering Thermogenesis Exist in Birds? -- Acidosis, Q10, and Metabolic Depression: Causation or Epiphenomona in Mammalian Hibernation? -- Why Do Hibernators Periodically Arouse?

About the author

Cynthia Carey, Gregory L. Florant, Bruce A. Wunder, and Barbara Horwitz

Summary

Contributors present the newest information on ecological, physiological, neurological, cellular and biochemical mechanisms by which vertebrates deal with seasonal cold.

Product details

• Authors: Carey, Cynthia Carey, Cynthia Florant Carey
• Assisted by: Cynthia Carey (Editor), Gregory L. Florant (Editor), Barbara Horwitz (Editor), Bruce A. Wunder (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367011079
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01107-9
• No. of pages: 590
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General, Educational: Sciences, General Science