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Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

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Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 An Introduction to Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
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    Chapter 2 A History of Modern Research into Fasting, Starvation, and Inanition
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    Chapter 3 Starvation in Rotifers: Physiology in an Ecological Context
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    Chapter 4 Drosophila as a Model for Starvation: Evolution, Physiology, and Genetics
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    Chapter 5 Metabolic Transitions During Feast and Famine in Spiders
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    Chapter 6 Adaptation of the Physiological, Endocrine, and Digestive System Functions to Prolonged Food Deprivation in Fish
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    Chapter 7 Starvation in Subterranean Species Versus Surface-Dwelling Species: Crustaceans, Fish, and Salamanders
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    Chapter 8 Physiological Responses to Starvation in Snakes: Low Energy Specialists
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    Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Circuits and Digestive Function of Intermittent-Feeding Sauropsids
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    Chapter 10 Thermoregulatory Adaptations to Starvation in Birds
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    Chapter 11 Fasting in Birds: General Patterns and the Special Case of Endurance Flight
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    Chapter 12 Tissue-Specific Mass Changes During Fasting: The Protein Turnover Hypothesis
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    Chapter 13 Seasonal Changes in Body Mass and Energy Balance in Wild Small Mammals
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    Chapter 14 Changes in Form and Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract During Starvation: From Pythons to Rats
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    Chapter 15 Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
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    Chapter 16 Physiological Responses to Fasting in Bats
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    Chapter 17 Muscle Protein and Strength Retention by Bears During Winter Fasting and Starvation
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    Chapter 18 Seasonal Starvation in Northern White-Tailed Deer
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    Chapter 19 Fasting Physiology of the Pinnipeds: The Challenges of Fasting While Maintaining High Energy Expenditure and Nutrient Delivery for Lactation
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    Chapter 20 The Use and Application of Stable Isotope Analysis to the Study of Starvation, Fasting, and Nutritional Stress in Animals
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    Chapter 21 Fearing the Danger Point: The Study and Treatment of Human Starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880–1974
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    Chapter 22 Quantitative Physiology of Human Starvation: Adaptations of Energy Expenditure, Macronutrient Metabolism and Body Composition
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    Chapter 23 Alternate Day Fasting: Effects on Body Weight and Chronic Disease Risk in Humans and Animals
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    Chapter 24 Horizons in Starvation Research
Attention for Chapter 21: Fearing the Danger Point: The Study and Treatment of Human Starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880–1974
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Chapter title
Fearing the Danger Point: The Study and Treatment of Human Starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880–1974
Chapter number 21
Book title
Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation
Published by
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29056-5_21
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-229055-8, 978-3-64-229056-5
Authors

Kevin Grant, Grant, Kevin

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