mole rat
Determinants of reproductive status and mate choice in captive colonies of the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber
... accompanying increase in cortisol levels. Furthermore, females, and often males, show a rapid and pronounced weight gain during this period. The highest ranking female invariably becomes the new queen. Thus, dominance ...
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Analysis of cultivable microbiota and diet intake pattern of the long-lived naked mole-rat
... naked mole-rats have higher levels of oxidative dam- age and decreased level of anti-oxidants compared to short-lived mice, indicating the involvement of further mechanisms known to counter high levels of ...
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Digital dissection of the masticatory muscles of the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber (Mammalia, Rodentia).
... naked mole-rat extends across the entire temporal region of the cranium and also pushes into the ...naked mole-rat may have partly facilitated the increase in size of the temporalis, enabling ...
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Exploration and navigation in the blind mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi): global calibration as a primer of spatial representation
... to mole rats, the structural unit of home base behaviour is the round trip, which starts at the home base and typically ends in direct dashing back to it (Eilam and Golani, 1989; Whishaw et ...the mole rats ...
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Pronounced cancer resistance in a subterranean rodent, the blind mole-rat, Spalax: in vivo and in vitroevidence
... Recently, several studies investigated the unique cancer- resistance properties of the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), another subterranean, long-lived, rodent species. The most recent study ...
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Blind mole rat (Spalax leucodon) masseter muscle: structure, homology, diversification and nomenclature
... Background: It is well known that rodents are defined by a unique masticatory apparatus. The present study describes the design and structure of the masseter muscle of the blind mole rat (Spalax leucodon). ...
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Expression of acid-sensing ion channels and selection of reference genes in mouse and naked mole rat
... naked mole-rats do not perceive acid as a noxious stimulus, even though their sensory neurons express functional ASICs, likely an adaptation to living in a hypercapnic subterranean ...naked mole-rat ...
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Overview of African naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber for bioprospecting, and access and benefit sharing in Ethiopia
... Biodiversity in developing countries such as Ethiopia has been accessed for a long time, for various purposes, by outside researchers and private companies with little or no returns to conservation activities and with no ...
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Insights into long noncoding RNAs of naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ) and their potential association with cancer resistance
... naked mole rat and human, we detected lncRNAs within 815 kb of G1 in NMR and within 894 kb of G2 in human as pre- viously suggested ...naked mole rat and ...
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Resistance to DNA damage and enhanced DNA repair capacity in the hypoxia tolerant blind mole rat Spalax carmeli
... naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is another subterranean rodent that is phylogenetically distant from Spalax (estimated divergence time from Spalax is 73 million years ago, whereas that of the ...
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Magnetic compass orientation in the blind mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi
... 1999). Mole rats are exposed to flashes of light when pushing excess soil into above- ground ...the mole rats’ circadian rhythm (Rado et ...the mole rats’ ability to use the earth’s magnetic field ...
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treatment or serum deprivation induces autophagy and apoptosis in naked mole-rat skin fibroblasts by inhibiting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway
... Naked mole-rats (NMR; Heterocephalus glaber) are long-lived rodents with a maximum lifespan of 30 years, which is about 5 times longer than similarly-sized mice ...
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Naked mole rat brain mitochondria electron transport system flux and H+ leak are reduced during acute hypoxia
... Naked mole rats (NMRs) are among the most hypoxia- tolerant mammals and reduce metabolic rate in hypoxic environments; however, little is known regarding mitochondrial function during in vivo hypoxia exposure in ...
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Species comparison of liver proteomes reveals links to naked mole-rat longevity and human aging
... In order to gain insight into molecular networks affected by aging, we performed Gene Ontology (GO) analysis, based on 5237 protein groups quantified by at least two unique peptides betw[r] ...
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Naked mole-rat transcriptome signatures of socially suppressed sexual maturation and links of reproduction to aging
... Naturally, new NMR colonies originate from fissioning of existing colonies or formation of new ones by dis- persers who leave their natal colony [12, 13]. When, under laboratory conditions, non-breeders are removed from ...
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Growing out of a caste reproduction and the making of the queen mole rat
... queen mole-rats are uniquely ...Female mole-rats had to adapt to these constraints, and selection seems to have favored increased lumbar length as a mechanism for achieving large litter sizes without overly ...
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Naked mole-rat cortical neurons are resistant to acid-induced cell death
... Naked mole-rats were bred in house and maintained in a custom-made ca- ging system with conventional mouse/rat cages con- nected by different lengths of ...
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Social suppression of reproduction in the naked mole rats, Heterocephalus glaber
... naked mole-rat it appears that the sex ratio may be equal at birth (B rett, 1986), but that a bias towards males soon develops due to higher infant m ortality among females: Jarvis (1990 a) found a ...
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Magnetic compass orientation in two strictly subterranean rodents: learned or species specific innate directional preference?
... drive to construct nests in the southeastern sector of a circular arena using magnetic field azimuth as the primary orientation cue (Burda et al., 1990). In marked contrast to birds (Ritz et al., 2010), its magnetic ...
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Evolutionary adaptation of the sensitivity of connexin26 hemichannels to CO2
... naked mole rat live exclusively underground in ...hypercapnic. Mole rats can thrive when housed in strongly hypoxic and hypercapnic atmospheres, whereas these conditions cause white laboratory rats ...
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