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Shit F Chew¹, Kum Hiong¹

¹Natural Sciences and Science Education; National Institute of Education; Nanyang Technological University; Singapore, Republic of Singapore.

Temperature (Austin, Tex.)

|September 2, 2016

Abstract:

Scientists have long been fascinated by animals undergoing aestivation, a state of torpor at high temperature, due to its great potential in fields ranging from medicine to space travel. The brain of the African lungfish is able to coordinate a whole-body response to induce aestivation and to arouse from aestivation.

Keywords:

growth hormone metabolic rate reduction osmoregulation oxidative defence prolactin somatostatin

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