Freshwater turtles and goldfish can survive for several days
without oxygen, some diving turtles for several months; hibernating
animals can exist without food for long periods; others can survive
extreme conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and thawing.
These creatures are, in effect, self-sustaining life-support
systems, with a mysterious ability to regulate their own
metabolisms.
These capabilities raise important questions, which Hochachka
and Guppy explore in this seminal new book. What mechanisms turn
down (or off) cell metabolism and other cell functions? How does an
animal such as an opossum know when to activate mechanisms for
slowing or stopping tissue and organ functions? How does it know
when to turn them on again? How extensive is metabolic arrest as a
defense against harsh environmental conditions? Can we decipher
universal principles of metabolic arrest from available data? The
lessons to be learned are of potentially great interest to
clinicians, because the authors provide a theoretical framework in
which to organize an attack on the all-too-practical problem of
protecting tissues against hypoxia. Areas that may be influenced
include research on cardiac arrest, strokes, acute renal failure,
liver ischemia, lung injury, respiratory defense syndrome,
claudication, shock, and organ transplant. Investigation of other
metabolic arrest mechanisms may be similarly useful in both
clinical and agricultural fields.
This is a pioneering book of great use to biomedical/clinical
researchers and to biologists, biochemists, and physiologists
generally.
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