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Metabolic Changes in Summer Active and Anuric Hibernating Free-Ranging Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) hibernates for 5 to 6 months each winter and during this time ingests no food or water and remains anuric and inactive. Despite these extreme conditions, bears do not develop azotemia and preserve their muscle and bone strength. To date most renal studies have been limi...

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Autores principales: Stenvinkel, Peter, Fröbert, Ole, Anderstam, Björn, Palm, Fredrik, Eriksson, Monica, Bragfors-Helin, Ann-Christin, Qureshi, Abdul Rashid, Larsson, Tobias, Friebe, Andrea, Zedrosser, Andreas, Josefsson, Johan, Svensson, My, Sahdo, Berolla, Bankir, Lise, Johnson, Richard J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24039826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072934