This book contains the proceedings of the ninth in a series of international gatherings dedicated to understanding how animals survive cold conditions. It includes topics related to cellular and molecular studies on gene expression and synthesis of messenger RNA.
1. Multiple Pathways to Spring
2. Comparison of Thermal Responses
Between Rest and Exercise During Cold Water Immersion
3. Seasonality of Daily
Torpor in a Migratory Hummingbird
4. Getting By on High: Ecological
Energetics of Arctic and Alpine Grouse
5. Hibernation in Birds: Comparisons
with Mammals
6. The Physiology of Hibernation in an Egg-laying Mammal, the
Echidna
7. Energetics of Social Hibernation
8. Factors Affecting Hibernation
Commencement and Spring Emergence in Siberian Chipmunks (Eutamias sibiricus)
9. Thermoregulatory "Strategies" of Two Apodemus Species Inhabiting a Cold
Environment on Mount Hermon
10. Individual Energetic Strategies in
Winter-Adapted Djungarian Hamsters: The Relation Between Daily Torpor,
Locomotion, and Food Consumption
11. Sexual Differences in Hibernaculum
Contents of Richardson's Ground Squirrels: Males Store Food
12. Patterns of
Body Temperature Change in Hibernating Arctic Ground Squirrels
13. Effects of
Captivity on Peak Rates of Oxygen Consumption of Winter-caught Deer Mice and
Black-capped Chickadees
14. Dietary Lipids and Thermal Physiology
15.
Regulation of Gut Structure and Function in Hibernators
16. Metabolic Fuel
Utilization During Hibernation
17. Energy Requirements of Hibernating Alpine
Marmots
18. Diet Affects Hibernation in Turkish Hamsters
19. Circadian
Rhythmicity and Photoperiodism in the Djungarian Hamster
20. Photoperiodic
Control of Reproduction and Hibernation in the European Hamster (Cricetus
cricetus): Morphological and Functional Analysis
21. Regulation of Cardiac
Cytosolic Free Ca2+ at Low Temperature in the Richardson's Ground Squirrel
22. Plasma Membrane Proton Transport and Hamster Brown Adipocyte
Thermogenesis
23. Seasonal Lipolysis in Hibernators
24. Sleep, Hypothermia,
and Hibernation: Metabolic Rate and the Control of Breathing Pattern in
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels
25. Temperature Regulation, Enzyme Kinetics,
and Metabolic Depression in Mammalian Hibernation
26. What is a Bout of
Hibernation?
27. Calcium and Temperature Dependent Neural Mechanisms in CA1
Pyramidal Cells in the Rat and Hamster Hippocampal Slice
28. The
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Mediates Rhythms of Hibernation and Daily Torpor in
Rodents
29. On Possible Mechanisms of the Septohippocampal System
Participation in the Neural Control of Hibernation
30. Is Endogenous Opioid
Involved in Hibernation?
31. Immediate Early Gene Expression in Brain Across
the Hibernation Cycle
32. Possible Involvement of Endogenous Adenosine in
Hibernation
33. Adaptive Changes of Hypothalamic Thermosensitive Neurons
After Exposure to Cold Environmental Temperature
34. Regulation of Brown
Adipose Tissue Function in Cold-Adapted Animals: Lack of 3-Adrenergic
Receptors in Brown Adipose Tissue of Cold-Adapted Guinea Pigs
35. Why Are
Brown Fat Cells from Cold-acclimated Animals Not Better?
36. Species
Distribution of Brown Adipose Tissue: Characterization of Adipose Tissues
from Uncoupling Protein and Its mRNA
37. Genes in the Cold: A Survey of the
Regulation of Gene Expression in Brown Adipose Tissue
38. Brown Adipose
Tissue and the Uncoupling Protein UCP: Cellular and Molecular Studies
39.
Muscle Function in Hibernators
40. Increased Lipoprotein Lipase Activity in
Brown Adipose Tissue During Arousal of the Hibernating Garden Dormouse
(Eliomys quercinus L.)
41. Lipoprotein Lipase Is Differentially Regulated in
Brown and White Adipose Tissue During Seasonal Acclimatization in the
Djungarian Hamster
42. Membrane Adaptations in Ectotherms and Endotherms
43.
Handling of Sodium Ion by the Plasma Membrane: Differences That Account for
Failure of Cold-Sensitive Cells
44. Differential Gene Expression in the Liver
During Hibernation in Ground Squirrels
45. Perspectives on Molecular Function
in Hibernators: Insights from Quiescent States of Invertebrates
46.
Identification and Characterization of Novel Types of Plasma Protein Specific
for Hibernation in Rodents
47. Myocardial -Adrenergic Receptor Complex in
Hibernation
48. Molecular Control of Prehibernation Brown Fat Growth in
Arctic Ground Squirrels
49. Hypothalamic Neuropeptides, Metabolic Hormones,
and Seasonal Fattening in Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels
50. Integrated
Physiological Responses Promoting Anuran Freeze Tolerance
51. Muscle Disuse
in Hibernation: Gene Expression and Morphology
52. Molecular Mechanism for
Selective Retention of Essential Fatty Acids During Hibernation
53. Does
Nonshivering Thermogenesis Exist in Birds?: Overview
54. Existence of
Nonshivering Thermogenesis in Birds
55. Does Regulatory Nonshivering
Thermogenesis Exist in Birds?
56. Acidosis, Q10, and Metabolic Depression:
Causation or Epiphenomena in Mammalian Hibernation?: Overview
57. Metabolic
Depression During Hibernation: the Role of Respiratory Acidosis
58.
Suppression of Metabolic Rate in Hibernation
59. Metabolic Rate Reduction
During Hibernation
60. Why Do Hibernators Periodically Arouse?: Overview
61.
Hibernators Periodically Arouse in Order to Sleep
62. Neurochemical
Regulation of Arousal from Hibernation
Cynthia Carey, Gregory L. Florant, Bruce A. Wunder, and Barbara Horwitz
