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Molecular Mechanisms of
Metabolic Arrest: Life in Limbo
A volume of Experimental Biology Reviews
Edited by: Kenneth B. Storey
BIOS Scientific Publishers,
Chapters in this book arose from lectures presented at the 2000 meeting of
the Society for Experimental Biology in
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Turning down the fires of life: metabolic regulation of hibernation and estivation. pp. 1-21. Manuscript
Kenneth B. Storey
Chapter 2. Hibernation, a state of natural tolerance to profound reduction in organ blood flow and oxygen delivery capacity. pp. 23-42.
Richard M. McCarron, Donna G. Sieckmann, Erik Z. Yu, Kai Frerichs and John M. Hallenbeck
Chapter 3. The ATP-sensitive potassium channel: a metabolic sensor. pp. 43-58.
Frances M. Ashcroft and Stefan Trapp
Chapter 4. Mitochondrial proton leak in metabolic depression. pp. 59-77.
Martin D. Brand, Robert G. Boutilier, Mark Wass, Julie St-Pierre and Tammie Bishop
Chapter 5. The hypoxic brain: suppressing energy-expensive membrane functions by regulation of receptors and ion channels. pp. 77-102.
Philip E. Bickler, Paul H.
Donohoe and Leslie T. Buck
Chapter 6. Anoxia survival and metabolic arrest in the turtle. pp. 103-114.
Donald C. Jackson
Chapter 7. Thermostasis in hypoxic animals. pp. 115-127.
Stephen C. Wood
Chapter 8. Cellular interactions between respiration and thermoregulation: the paramecium. pp. 129-142.
Gary Malvin
Chapter 9. Coupling of stress-induced gene expression with growth arrest in budding yeast. pp. 143-154.
Helmut Ruis
Chapter 10. Time for a rest: programmed diapause in insects. pp. 155-169.
David L. Denlinger
11. Do stress proteins protect embryos during metabolic arrest and diapause? pp. 169-186.
Thomas H. MacRae
12. Molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in plants. pp. 187-196.
Dorothea Bartels