Zapping part of the brain with focused ultrasound can put rats in a hibernation-like state called torpor for at least 24 hours, even though rats don’t naturally go into this state. Doing this in humans could have medical uses
Zapping part of the brain with focused ultrasound can put mice in a hibernation-like state called torpor for at least 24 hours. The same approach can also induce the state in rats, which, unlike mice, don’t naturally enter torpor.at Washington University in St. Louis. “The thinking is that, if we show that in animals that don’t normally enter the torpor state we can still induce a similar phenomenon, maybe we can scale up the technology to larger animals.”among other things.
. Others, such as mice, enter it only when food runs low. Hibernation involves extended periods of torpor interrupted by occasional returns to normal body temperature.stimulating part of the hypothalamus in the brains of mice can induce torpor . However, they used complex methods, including genetic engineering, to activate this “brain switch”.
Chen wondered if ultrasound could be used instead. Her team has been developing a method called focused ultrasound
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