metabolic depression
Organism energy conservation
Metabolic depression is a physiological state in which an organism dramatically reduces its metabolic rate to conserve energy.
Animals entering hibernation, torpor, or estivation undergo metabolic depression, slowing heart rate, breathing, and cellular processes to survive periods of cold, heat, or food scarcity.
Some organisms can reduce metabolism by over 90 percent: The frog survives freezing through profound metabolic depression.
- torporInactive, sluggish state
- hibernationProlonged winter dormancy
- deep sleepUnconsciousness hard to rouse
- dormancySuspended biological activity
- slowdownReduction in pace
hypothermia · body temperature · hypoxia · starvation · fasting · bradycardia · lethargy · suspended · playing dead · aestivation · coma · shutdown · oxygen · glucose · ATP · mitochondria · cold-blooded · survival
- dormancyhibernation, dormancy, torpor, diapause, estivation
- cryogenicsliquid nitrogen, cryogenic, cryogenics, cryogenic storage, cryostat
metabolic depressionhypermetabolism
Abnormally elevated metabolic rate
thermogenesis · fever · hyperthermia · metabolic activation · hyperthyroidism
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