ЗАГАДОЧНАЯ ФИЗИОЛОГИЯ ЖИВОТНЫХ Томаш Мотыль SGGW

Stan książki: NOWA

Wydział: WETERYNARIA

Spis treści:

From the Author ........................................................................................ 7

Electrical potential as a manifestation of cell life ....................... 9

Death determining the life .................................................................... 13

Autophagy as a cell survival tool ........................................................ 17

Sensory brain maps .................................................................................. 20

Ammon’s horn – memory creator ...................................................... 24

Can the brain regenerate? ..................................................................... 27

What do animals dream about? .......................................................... 30

Simulant opossum .................................................................................... 34

Dogs detect cancers .................................................................................. 36

Elephants hear from afar ....................................................................... 40

Seeing the world in colors ..................................................................... 43

Glowing wolf eyes ..................................................................................... 46

Hormone of darkness .............................................................................. 49

Automatic heart ......................................................................................... 53

Why sperm whales do not suffer from decompression sickness? ............................................................ 57

Specifics of bird respiration .................................................................. 60

Why is the blood red? ............................................................................. 63

Hemoglobin – blood gas transporter ................................................ 67

To eat or not to eat? .................................................................................. 70

Energy of food – condition of survival ............................................. 74

Leptin – obesity hormone ..................................................................... 77

Live bioreactors ......................................................................................... 80

Newspaper fed goats ............................................................................... 84

Selenium – the lunar element .............................................................. 87

Why do small animals live shorter? .................................................. 90

Why do deer antlers grow so fast? ..................................................... 94

Repair cells of the skeletal muscle ..................................................... 97

“Bodybuilders” in the animal world .................................................. 100

Adapting a horse to the effort .............................................................. 103

Wintertime sleepers ................................................................................ 107

Newly born piglets are shivering ....................................................... 110

Dog with hanging tongue ...................................................................... 113

Hot hogs ........................................................................................................ 115

Cold legs of penguins ............................................................................... 117

These wonderful coolers ....................................................................... 119

Life saving water ........................................................................................ 121

“Kissing” hormones ................................................................................. 125

What is the maternal diagnosis of pregnancy? ............................. 127

Prolonged pregnancy ............................................................................... 130

Biological birth clock ............................................................................... 133

The mammary gland – larder of the newborn mammal .......... 136

This wonderful first food ....................................................................... 141