Found in all organisms, pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes (PDC) are the keystones of
prokaryotic and eukaryotic energy metabolism. In eukaryotic organisms these multi …

Aging in most animals is an inevitable process that causes or is a result of physiological,
biochemical, and molecular changes in the body, and has a strong influence on an …

Background Hibernation is a physiological state exploited by many animals exposed to
prolonged adverse environmental conditions associated with winter. Large changes in …

Evolution has produced animals that survive extreme fluctuations in environmental
conditions including freezing temperatures, anoxia, desiccating conditions, and prolonged …

Abstract The small South American marsupial, Dromiciops gliroides, known as the missing
link between the American and the Australian marsupials, is one of the few South American …

Wood frogs, Rana sylvatica, can undergo prolonged periods of whole body freezing during
winter, locking as much as 65–70% of total body water into extracellular ice and imposing …

Significance: The ultimate manifestations of life, birth, survival under various environmental
pressures and death are based on bioenergetics. Hibernation is a unique survival strategy …

Mitochondria are not just the powerhouses of the cell; these 'end of function'organelles are
crucial components of cellular physiology and influence many central metabolic and …

The two species of the microbiotheriid marsupial genus Dromiciops (Dromiciops
bozinovici:“Panchos's monito del monte” and Dromiciops gliroides:“monito del monte”) …

Thirteen-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) are excellent models for
studying acute brain ischemia because they show high resistance to reductions in blood …