Summertime cholesterol consumption key for wintertime survival for Siberian hamsters
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
Increasingly, scientific findings indicate that an organism's diet affects more than just general health and body condition. In an article published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University have found evidence that the diet of some animals must include cholesterol in order for them to enter necessary periods of energy conservation known as torpor.