Breathe Easy: the Naked Mole-Rat's Secret to Surviving Oxygen Deprivation (9 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Breathe Easy: the Naked Mole-Rat's Secret to Surviving Oxygen Deprivation (9 of 12)

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Naked mole-rats huddling together in their natural habitat. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 21, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.J. Park at University of Illinois in Chicago, IL, and colleagues was titled, 'Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat.'

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