PhysiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Comparative analysis of naked mole-rat thermogenesis and its potential to maintain euthermia in response to cold
Aleksei E. Mikhalchenko, June K. Corrigan, Yuchen He…·Vadim N. Gladyshev
This study investigates the thermogenic potential of naked mole-rat brown adipose tissue and its ability to maintain body temperature in cold, finding that NMRs can initiate non-shivering thermogenesis but cannot sustain it due to heat loss and substrate limitations.