Hibernation in Mice: Are Humans Next? (IMAGE)

University of Tsukuba

Hibernation in Mice: Are Humans Next?

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Posture of mouse during QIH. We induced QIH, a synthetic hibernation-like state, to mouse and took pictures along with infrared imaging. Left, control mouse. Right, QIH mouse (48hr after CNO injection). We made mirror-images of infrared images, and made compositions with photos. (Photo by University of Tsukuba)

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