Editorial: Torpor and hibernation: metabolic and physiological paradigms

Sylvain Giroud; Yoshifumi Yamaguchi; Jeremy Terrien; Robert H Henning

doi:10.3389/fphys.2024.1441872

Editorial: Torpor and hibernation: metabolic and physiological paradigms

Front Physiol. 2024 Jun 18:15:1441872. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1441872. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Sylvain Giroud¹, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi^{2

3}, Jeremy Terrien⁴, Robert H Henning⁵

Affiliations

¹ Energetics Lab, Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, United States.
² Hibernation Metabolism, Physiology, and Development Group, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
³ Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
⁴ Unité Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 7179, Brunoy, France.
⁵ Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: biomimicry (biomimetics); body temperature; heterothermy; mammals; pathophysiology; primates; seasonality; thermoregulation.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. SG was financially supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, Grant No. P31577-B25) and a Faculty Research Grant from Northern Michigan University (NMU, FRG FY2024).