.... It is abundantly expressed in neonatal mouse muscles and cold challenge prevents its developmental downregulation, indicating higher recruitment of muscle-based thermogenesis in neonates. Neonatal development Cold acclimatization SERCA, Thermogenic mechanisms Cold is a powerful environmental...

... of sustainable thermogenic capacity. However, improved endurance to cold can also be achieved without significant changes in M sum . The same is true for basal metabolic rate (BMR),which is known to increase in association with cold acclimatization or acclimation in some species but not in others. We...

... ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1997 capillary supply cold acclimatization myocardium skeletal muscle rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss The swimming musculature of fishes is usually divided into anatomically and functionally discrete regions of white (fast glycolytic...