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Naked mole-rats prefer low-oxygen air that would kill most mammals, adding to their list of death-defying superpowers
The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the oxygen level would slowly diminish. If it got to about 15 percent, you’d feel a ...
When oxygen runs low in their underground burrows, naked mole rats have a unique method of survival. Their metabolism switches from a glucose-based system, which depends on oxygen, to one that makes ...
April 20 (UPI) --When naked mole-rats run low on oxygen, they metabolize fructose just like plants, a new study showed. The brain cells of most mammals, including humans, quickly die when deprived of ...
Blind mole rats live in underground burrows that can be quite hypoxic, with oxygen levels getting as low as 7.2 percent. (The air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen). A team of researchers in Israel and ...
Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do -- a finding that could lead to treatments for heart attacks and strokes. Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats ...
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