A study of animal metabolism at the whole-body level. The emphasis will be on integrative aspects of metabolism, including exploring nutrient and energy flow from the food to organs, tissues and ...

This energy produced by warm-blooded animals mostly comes from food. Food represents stored chemical energy (potential energy), which is converted into other forms of energy within the body when the ...

The researchers found that vampire bats — like blood-sucking insects — are capable of metabolizing amino acids as a primary ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and ...

If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent amount of alcohol relative to its body siz ...

Metabolism close metabolismAll the chemical ... All cells require glucose for respiration. Animals can convert glycogen into glucose when they need a short term supply of energy and they have ...

While not many of the animals you’ll see at the zoo will end up hibernating, because that would make for a boring zoo, those ...

On October 29, the recall was classified as a class II recall by the FDA—a situation in which "use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health ...