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ANIMAL BIOLOGY
卷 61, 期 4, 页码 385-401出版社
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1163/157075511X596873
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Adaptive thermogenesis; basal metabolic rate (BMR); cold adaptation; island origin; liver; maximum non-shivering thermogenesis (NSTmax); Tupaia belangeri
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- NSFC [31071925]
- Basic Project of Yunnan Province [2007C0005Z1]
- Yunnan Province Education Department [ZD2009007]
Environmental cues play important roles in the regulation of an animal's physiology and behavior. The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that ambient temperature was a cue to induce adjustments in body mass, energy intake and thermogenic capacity, associated with the role of the liver for adaptive thermogenesis in tree shrews (Tupaia belangeri), a unique species of small mammals in the Oriental realm. Many targets were measured, such as the state 3 and the state 4 of mitochondrial respiration, the protein content of mitochondria of the liver in T. belangeri under prolonged cold acclimation (5 +/- 1 degrees C, 12L : 12D light cycle) during different times [0 d (control), 7 d, 14 d, 21 d, 28 d]. We found the total protein, mitochondrial protein, and the state 3 and the state 4 of mitochondrial respiration of the liver greatly increased by 39.9%, 39.3%, 84.9% and 181.1% after 28 d in T. belangeri when exposed to cold, as compared with the controls, respectively. Thus, the liver plays a key role in the adaptive thermogenesis during cold acclimation in tree shrews; we believed that evidence from the physiological ecology is equally supportive of the island origin of tree shrews, T. belangeri. (C) Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011.
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