{"id":4539,"date":"2016-01-14T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2016-01-18T01:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:33:34","slug":"the-secret-to-surviving-without-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-secret-to-surviving-without-oxygen\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret to surviving without oxygen<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4540\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/5302214018_e9de77c64d_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4540\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/5302214018_e9de77c64d_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The red-eared slider, identifiable by the marking on the side of the face and neck, is native to the United States of America. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red-eared slider, identifiable by the marking on the side of the face and neck, is native to the United States of America. (Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevendepolo\/5302214018\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Depolo<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Red-eared slider, a species of turtle, is able to survive months of low oxygen, without apparent damage to the brain tissue. Researchers believe they have now found the secret to this ability in the mitochondria of the brain cells. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mitochondria, where the respiration and energy processes of the brain take place, of Red-eared sliders are able to remodel themselves to be better suited for neuroprotection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers examined brain tissues isolated from turtles which had been exposed to either two weeks of of anoxia or normal-oxygen levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/12\/1\/20150797.article-info\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Biology Letters\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 13<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Matthew E. Pamenter,\u00a0Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario<\/h4>\n<h4>Crisostomo R. Gomez,\u00a0Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<h4>Jeffrey G. Richards,\u00a0Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<h4>William K. Milsom,\u00a0Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red-eared slider, a species of turtle, is able to survive months of low oxygen, without apparent damage to the brain tissue. Researchers believe they have now found the secret to this ability in the mitochondria of the brain cells. The mitochondria, where the respiration and energy processes of the brain take place, of Red-eared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,113,917,51],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}