In vivo assessment of cold adaptation in insect larvae by magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Temperatures below the freezing point of water and the ensuing ice crystal formation pose serious challenges to cell structure and function. Consequently, species living in seasonally cold environments have evolved a multitude of strategies to reorganize their cellular architecture and metabolism, and the underlying mechanisms are crucial to our understanding of life. In multicellular organisms, and poikilotherm animals in particular, our knowledge about these processes is almost exclusively due to invasive studies, thereby limiting the range of conclusions that can be drawn about intact living systems.

Methodology

Given that non-destructive techniques like (1)H Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy have proven useful for in vivo investigations of a wid

SUBMITTER: Mietchen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2586655 | biostudies-literature | 2008

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature