Sentences with phrase «during hibernation»

A significant problem in studying WNS has been the unreliability of visual onsite inspection when checking for WNS in bats during hibernation; the only way to confirm presence of disease was to euthanize the bats and send them back to a laboratory for testing.

He and his colleagues also found that grizzlies somehow store all of the fuel they need during hibernation in fat tissue, not in liver and muscle, which are common places for fat to accumulate in other animals with obesity.

In my senior year of college, in my tiny studio apartment with a microwave oven and electric stove, I'd pass time during the hibernation by trying out all sorts of new recipes.

«Can mechanisms used during hibernation help animals colonize new habitats?.»

The investigators discovered that the bears» secret to maintaining their health during hibernation lies in saving energy on protein synthesis.

Welinder and colleagues found that even though protein expression decreased overall, there were a few select proteins that were drastically elevated during hibernation.

Ecologist Kate Langwig of Boston University and her colleagues want Eastern bats to listen up: No more cuddling — at least during hibernation.

Certain species pack into tight, dense clusters during hibernation.

Its huddling, cuddling nature during hibernation would suggest the species is ripe for epidemic infection.

A ground squirrel's heart rate can drop from 300 beats per minute to three or four ticks in the same span during hibernation.

During hibernation polar bears maintain crucial muscles so that they are still physically strong when they wake up.

In a previous study, a team that included physiological ecologist Henry Harlow of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, had taken biopsies from bears early and late during hibernation.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

The fungus that causes white - nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) grows on the exposed skin of bats» noses, ears, and wings during hibernation, when the bats» body temperatures drop.

This switch from complexity to simplicity allows bears to decrease the energy necessary to maintain important molecular processes for survival during hibernation.

Welinder and colleagues found that while the large majority of protein levels decreased during hibernation, the overall protein concentration increased due to dehydration and an increased level of serum albumin.

The sex hormone - binding globulin increased a dramatic 45-fold during hibernation, suggesting that this molecule must play a central role in the maintenance of hibernation.

Welinder says the mechanism of action of sex hormone - binding globulin during hibernation still remains elusive.

Only the three central coagulation factors, fibrinogen, thrombin and factor Xa, were increased during hibernation; together, these factors facilitate wound healing, only permitting local formation of blood clots when needed.

Bile salt - activated lipase, which can hydrolyze both triglycerides and cholesterol esters, was elevated 32-fold during hibernation and allowed the bears efficiently to harvest energy from stored fat.

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Karen Gjesing Welinder at Aalborg University in Denmark and colleagues set out to understand how wild Scandinavian brown bears protect their health and save energy during hibernation.

Brian Barnes of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and his colleagues wanted to test whether this was the case for the Arctic ground squirrel — famous for its ability to lower its body temperature to -3 °C during hibernation by supercooling its blood.

The scientists also found that the bears» levels of calcium — of which bone is made — in the blood did not change during hibernation, meaning that even though bone remodeling is suppressed, it remains balanced, which helps limit bone loss.

They found that the levels of a bone formation marker known as bone - specific alkaline phosphatase (BSALP) and a bone resorption marker known as tartrate - resistant acid phosphatase (TRACP) fell during hibernation, suggesting that overall bone turnover had decreased, the team reports online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

While the animals» brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects.

The squirrel - like mammals can lose up to 40 percent of their body mass during hibernation, and longer summers are giving them more time to eat and store fat, helping them live through the winter and reproduce the following year.

Recently, researchers led by John Hallenbeck, M.D., an NINDS senior investigator and co-senior author of the study, found that a cellular process called SUMOylation goes into overdrive in a certain species of ground squirrel during hibernation.

However, treating bats for the disease during hibernation is challenging, so any weakness of the fungus may be good news to managers trying to develop treatment strategies.

The study will measure the survival of little brown bats during hibernation after being treated with UV - light compared to control groups.

P. destructans can only infect bats during hibernation because it has a strict temperature growth range of about 39 - 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

White - nose syndrome fungus can infect an entire bat colony during hibernation, but surviving bats are able to clear the infection after they become active again

Thirteen - lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) show microstructural bone loss during hibernation but preserve bone macrostructural geometry and strength

We hauled back all the gear that we had removed for safe - keeping during hibernation and began to reinstall it and test it out.

It operates during hibernation to detect tiny dust grains produced by collisions of asteroid, comets and KBOs.

Chesapeake Bay blue crabs get their celebrated buttery flavor from the fat stores they accumulate during hibernation, according to Maryland's Department of Natural Resources; locals call those fat deposits «mustard.»

Scientists hypothesize that bat deaths from the fungus are caused by them being roused during hibernation.

City denizens are also advised to stay away from nesting hedgehogs during hibernation season and to be wary of garden items that could cause harm, like plant netting, garden tools and rodent poison during the rest of the year.

Hiberfil.sys is used by the Windows operating system to store all the contents of your RAM during hibernation.

No one yet knows how the butterflies are able to find the exact same trees their ancestors used during hibernation.

To understand how bears maintain their health during hibernation, Welinder and colleagues decided to look for differences in the levels of blood constituents between hibernating and nonhibernating brown bears.

«The idea would be to apply the bacteria on bats during hibernation and see if it suppresses the growth of the fungus,» Kilpatrick said.

Do the bats» immune systems just take longer to boot up during hibernation?

During hibernation, the body temperatures of bats drop to the cold ambient temperatures of their «hibernacula» (the caves and abandoned mines where the bats hibernate).

The researchers hope that a bacterial spray applied to bats during hibernation could suppress the fungus enough to help the bats survive the winter.

During hibernation, complex pathways with many proteins are turned down or eliminated and are replaced with a small number of proteins with broader specificity and wide ranges of functions.