{"id":37624,"date":"2011-07-31T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-time%e2%80%99s-right-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:44:53","slug":"researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-time%e2%80%99s-right-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-time%e2%80%99s-right-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Induce Hibernation in Squirrels (But Only When the Time\u2019s Right) | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c0520_groundsquierrel.jpg\" alt=\"spacing is important\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/31\/30\/10752\">discovered a way to induce hibernation in arctic ground squirrels<\/a>&mdash;by administering a substance that stimulates the brain receptors of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adenosine\">adenosine<\/a>, a molecule involved in slowing nerve cell activity. Induced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hibernation\">hibernation<\/a> could someday be used to preserve the brain functions of human stroke victims, though that&rsquo;s still a ways off as the current technique only works on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arctic_ground_squirrel\">arctic ground squirrels<\/a> during hibernation season.<\/p><p>[Read more at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/world\/scientists-unlock-key-to-hibernation-in-name-of-stroke-heart-research\/story-e6frg6so-1226102521518\">Australian<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/07\/110726190101.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">ScienceDaily<\/a>]<\/p><p><em>Image: Flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16725630@N00\/4939214437\/\">Threat to Democracy<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AffYBqWSfmU4yNTVgz6g1JPvwS0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c0520_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AffYBqWSfmU4yNTVgz6g1JPvwS0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c0520_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c0520_TT8Trl8hIVI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c0520_4qpD4mwq370\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks have discovered a way to induce hibernation in arctic ground squirrels&mdash;by administering a substance that stimulates the brain receptors of adenosine, a molecule involved in slowing nerve cell activity. Induced hibernation could someday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/researchers-induce-hibernation-in-squirrels-but-only-when-the-time%e2%80%99s-right-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}