For the Doctor Who audio play, see Cryptobiosis (Doctor Who audio). For the fish disease, see Cryptobia.
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Cryptobiosis or anabiosis is a metabolic state in extremophilic organisms in response to adverse environmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and oxygen deficiency. In the cryptobiotic state, all measurable metabolic processes stop, preventing reproduction, development, and repair. When environmental conditions return to being hospitable, the organism will return to its metabolic state of life as it was prior to cryptobiosis.
metabolic state of life as it was prior to cryptobiosis. Anhydrobiosis is the most studied form of cryptobiosis and occurs in situations of extreme desiccation...
groups of species that are capable of suspending their metabolism (see cryptobiosis). While in this state, their metabolism lowers to less than 0.01% of...
of years—and, perhaps, indefinitely—if they enter into the state of cryptobiosis, whereby their metabolism is reversibly suspended.[citation needed] There...
that could potentially provide important information in the process of cryptobiosis. M. tardigradum has a symmetrical body with eight legs; it uses claws—a...
undescribed Panagrolaimus kolymaensis were revived after 46,000 years in cryptobiosis. However, a number of scientists expressed skepticism regarding the accuracy...
theories as to how trehalose works within the organism in the state of cryptobiosis are the vitrification theory, a state that prevents ice formation, or...
sides of the Drake Passage. The species exhibits an extreme degree of cryptobiosis – the ability of a life form to enter a non-metabolic state, extending...
secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments (Halobiotus). By cryptobiosis many species are able to live temporarily in very dry environments. More...
and other forms of metabolic suspension, D. Keilin proposed the term ‘cryptobiosis’ (latent life) to describe: “...the state of an organism when it shows...
not cryopreserved. Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation Brain in a vat Cryptobiosis Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation...
death, until the patient reaches specialized attention. Brain death Coma Cryptobiosis Immortality Life extension Stasis Suspended animation in fiction "Suspended...
near the surface might survive through adaptions such as hibernation (cryptobiosis) and/or hyperthermostability. Tardigrades, for example, can survive in...
completely dried out and let them enter a state of suspended animation called cryptobiosis. Intracellular osmoprotectant concentrations are regulated in response...
below freezing. This characteristic is called cryptobiosis, meaning "hidden life". While in cryptobiosis, brine shrimp eggs can survive temperatures of...
there but not natively expressed in response to drought. Dehydration Cryptobiosis Anhydrobiosis Hygrochasy Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916). The Standard Cyclopedia...
of trehalose, a disaccharide sugar involved in several mechanisms of cryptobiosis. Although the rehydrated plant sometimes is described as putting out...
demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket engine. 27 July – The longest known cryptobiosis in a nematode is reported, with an organism revived after 46,000 years...
non-living matter Astrobiology – Science concerned with life in the universe Cryptobiosis – Metabolic state of life List of microorganisms tested in outer space...
other species of tardigrade, A. antarcticus can enter a state of cryptobiosis. Cryptobiosis is a physiological state in which an organism's metabolic activity...
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