Biologists from the Japanese University of Hiroshima have come close to discovering one of the main secrets of the bear’s body – how does it maintain muscle mass during long hibernation? If a person’s body remains motionless for at least a few weeks, his muscles begin to degar. The bear is used immobile for 7-8 months, without food or drink, neither muscles nor the digestive system are involved, but in the spring a emaciated, but strong and strong beast emerges from the den.
Japanese biologists have repeatedly taken blood samples from black bears in search of unknown constituents. In the summer, during wakefulness, there is nothing unusual in the blood of bears. The secret will be revealed only after the introduction of the animal into the s, but it remains to this day what the substance is.
Evidence of the presence of a special component to obtain is simple, for this, biologists added serum from bear blood to a container with human skeletal muscle cells and a day later observed a rapid growth of proteins in them. In parallel with the reaction, a protein-regulator was produced, which is responsible for the utilization of unused substances. The unknown component stops the process of natural muscle degradation, and if it turns out, they secrete it, they create a means for the development of people who are today chained to bed.
Source: Tech Cult
