Strategies in cold : natural torpidity and thermogenesis /

20 papers presented at a symposium held in Jasper, Alberta, Oct. 3-8, 1977.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wang, Lawrence C. H., Hudson, Jack W., 1926-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Academic Press, 1978.
Temas:
Body temperature > Regulation > Congresses.
Cold > Physiological effect > Congresses.
Hibernation > Congresses.
Dormancy (Biology) > Congresses.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Body temperature > Regulation.
Hibernation.
Adaptation, Physiological
Body Temperature Regulation
Cold Climate
Hibernation
Mammals > physiology
Thermor�egulation > Congr�es.
Froid > Effets physiologiques > Congr�es.
Hibernation > Congr�es.
Dormance > Congr�es.
Adaptation (Physiologie)
Thermor�egulation.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
Body temperature > Regulation
Cold > Physiological effect
Dormancy (Biology)
K�alteanpassung
Mammals > Physiology > Effects of cold Conference proceedings
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congr�es.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Strategies in Cold: Natural Torpidity and Thermogenesis; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Participants; Preface; Introductory Remarks; Session I: Comparative Aspects of Natural Torpidity; Chapter 1. Natural Torpidity, Problems, and Perspectives; ABSTRACT; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Circannual Cycles in Hibernators; ABSTRACT; I. WAYS OF GENERATING CIRCANNUAL CYCLES; II. CIRCANNUAL CYCLES IN HIBERNATORS; III. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Shallow, Daily Torpor: A Thermoregulatory Adaptation; ABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SHALLOW DAILY TORPOR
  • III. TORPIDITY IN CRICETIDSIV. TORPOR IN HETEROMYIDAE; V. TORPOR IN DIPODIDAE; VI. TORPOR IN MURIDAE; VII. TORPOR IN INSECTIVORES; VIII. TORPOR IN PRIMATES; IX. TORPOR IN MARSUPIALS; X. DISCUSSION
  • DAILY TORPOR; XI. CHIPMUNKS; XII. EVOLUTION OF TORPIDITY; XIII. SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Energetic and Field Aspects of Mammalian Torpor: The Richardson's Ground Squirrel; ABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. FIELD ASPECTS OF NATURAL TORPIDITY; III. LABORATORY ASPECTS OF NATURAL TORPIDITY; IV. ENERGETICS OF NATURAL TORPIDITY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES
  • Chapter 5. The Economics of Temperature Regulation and Torpor in Nonmammalian OrganismsABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. AN ECONOMIC DEFINITION OF HOMEOTHERMY AND TORPOR; III. THE ENERGETIC HYPOTHESIS; IV. THE PREDATION HYPOTHESIS; V. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VI. TEMPORAL ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Session II: Central Nervous System Regulation in Natural Torpidity; Chapter 6. Neuronal Models of Temperature Regulation in Euthermic and Hibernating Mammals: An Alternate Model for Hibernation; ABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. BASIC CONCEPTS
  • EUTHERMIC MAMMALS
  • III. EUTHERMIC HIBERNATORSIV. HIBERNATION; V. AN ALTERNATE MODEL; VI. HIBERNATION, STEADY STATE BODY TEMPERATURE; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Sleep and Hibernation: Electrophysiological and Thermoregulatory Homologies; ABSTRACT; I. HIBERNATION AS AN EXTENSION OF SLEEP; II. AROUSAL-STATE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE THERMOREGULATORY SYSTEM; III. THE REGULATION OF BODY TEMPERATURE DURING TORPOR; IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Thermosensitivity of Preoptic Neurons and Hypothalamic Integrative Function in Hibernators and Nonhibernators; ABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. THERMOSENSITIVITY OF THE PREOPTIC AREA (POA) IN HIBERNATORS AND NON-HIBERNATORSIII. THERMORESPONSIVE PREOPTIC NEURONES IN HIBERNATORS AND NON-HIBERNATORS; IV. ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DURING HIBERNATION; V. INTEGRATIVE FUNCTION OF HYPOTHALAMIC STRUCTURES; VI. POSSIBLE MODE OF INTEGRATION OF THERMAL INFORMATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Time Sequence of Physiological Changes during Hibernation: The Significance of Serotonergic Pathways; ABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SEROTONIN METABOLISM IN THE BRAIN OF HIBERNATING ANIMALS

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