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  • Title: Cardiac arrhythmias during arousal from hibernation in three species of rodents.
    Author: Eagles DA, Jacques LB, Taboada J, Wagner CW, Diakun TA.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1988 Jan; 254(1 Pt 2):R102-8. PubMed ID: 3276222.
    Abstract:
    Cardiac activity was monitored during arousal from deep hibernation in three species of hibernators (Citellus tridecemlineatus, Marmota monax, and Mesocricetus auratus). Individuals of each species showed marked arrhythmias, and these were confined to a body temperature range of between 11 and 20 degrees C, measured orally or rectally. The arrhythmias consisted of intermittent periods of asystole and bradycardia and were sometimes marked by the appearance of premature ventricular contractions and elevated or depressed S-T segments. Surgical manipulation of euthermic M. monax, under pentobarbital sodium anesthesia, indicated that none of the arrhythmias observed was inducible by injections of cold saline into the vena cava.
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