Hibernation article list

The circadian rhythm stops at low temperatures, resets the time and restarts when rewarmed.

 A research group at the Life Creation Research Center/National Institute for Physiological Sciences is conducting joint research with Nagoya University and Hokkaido University to investigate the approximately 24-hour rhythm in the brain (roughly […]

Hokkaido University discovers that hibernation returns body temperature rhythm to summer pattern

 A research group led by Tetsu Nakagawa (doctoral student) at Hokkaido University Graduate School found that when hibernating animals, Syrian hamsters, experience hibernation, their body […]

Elucidation of the mechanism by which the muscle strength of Asian black bears does not decline during hibernation

 Associate Professor Mitsunori Miyazaki, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Associate Professor Rinto Shimotsuru, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kitaoka, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kanagawa University […]

Why doesn't my muscles weaken during hibernation?Confirmed the effect of increasing muscle cell mass in the serum of hibernating animals

 In a joint research between Hiroshima University and Hokkaido University, when wintering Tsukinowaguma serum was added to cultured human skeletal muscle cells, the total amount of protein in skeletal muscle cells […]

Night lights in the city interfere with insect hibernation, discovered by Setsunan University and Osaka City University

 Assistant Professor Ayumu Mukai of Setsunan University Faculty of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University […]

University of Tsukuba discovered a neural circuit that causes hibernation, to realize artificial hibernation

 A research group led by Professor Takeshi Sakurai of the University of Tsukuba has collaborated with RIKEN to induce a new neural cycle that can induce mice to resemble hibernation […].