Unique Frog Survival
Do you wish you could freeze to pass the winter away and thaw out in the spring? The Alaskan Frog does just that! It freezes for seven to eight months, thaws out, and then hops away (“Los Angeles Times”)! Its amphibious body stays about the same temperature as the surrounding air, allowing its internal body temperature to fall below freezing (“Los Angeles Times”)! Research says that wood frogs tracked in the wild proved able to endure below-zero temperatures for as many as 218 days straight with a 100 percent survival rate (“The Truth”). Wood Frog tissue and cell research are leading scientists to discover how to preserve human organs.
First, the Alaskan Wood Frog freezes. These Frogs freeze at -16 degrees Celsius …show more content…
The sugar is made in the liver then, it goes through the bloodstream into every tissue. There it prevents cells from dehydrating and shrinking (“Can Frogs Survive”). The amount of glucose in a single wood frog while in a frozen state is about the same amount of glucose found in the blood of a human child. The massive amount of sugar produced by the Alaskan Wood Frog makes them sweet. "They would be sweeter than soda," Larson said (“Biological Miracle”). As the wood frog is freezing, its heart continues pumping the protective glucose around its body. Ice quickly fills the wood frog’s abdominal cavity and encases the internal organs, by binding the water molecules inside the cells, and preventing dehydration. Ice crystals form between the layers of skin and muscle (“Biological …show more content…
Glucose in the Wood Frog is the same as blood sugar in humans (“Biological Miracle”). They believe if they can imitate the Alaskan Wood Frogs freezing ability, then they can save lives by creating longer transplant times. Organs would be froze once removed from the deceased and thawed without damage to be placed in the awaiting recipient. Freezing the organ would increase the allowable time between removing and implanting (“Biological Miracle”). More transplants would be possible if freezing of the human organs was
Do you wish you could freeze to pass the winter away and thaw out in the spring? The Alaskan Frog does just that! It freezes for seven to eight months, thaws out, and then hops away (“Los Angeles Times”)! Its amphibious body stays about the same temperature as the surrounding air, allowing its internal body temperature to fall below freezing (“Los Angeles Times”)! Research says that wood frogs tracked in the wild proved able to endure below-zero temperatures for as many as 218 days straight with a 100 percent survival rate (“The Truth”). Wood Frog tissue and cell research are leading scientists to discover how to preserve human organs.
First, the Alaskan Wood Frog freezes. These Frogs freeze at -16 degrees Celsius …show more content…
The sugar is made in the liver then, it goes through the bloodstream into every tissue. There it prevents cells from dehydrating and shrinking (“Can Frogs Survive”). The amount of glucose in a single wood frog while in a frozen state is about the same amount of glucose found in the blood of a human child. The massive amount of sugar produced by the Alaskan Wood Frog makes them sweet. "They would be sweeter than soda," Larson said (“Biological Miracle”). As the wood frog is freezing, its heart continues pumping the protective glucose around its body. Ice quickly fills the wood frog’s abdominal cavity and encases the internal organs, by binding the water molecules inside the cells, and preventing dehydration. Ice crystals form between the layers of skin and muscle (“Biological …show more content…
Glucose in the Wood Frog is the same as blood sugar in humans (“Biological Miracle”). They believe if they can imitate the Alaskan Wood Frogs freezing ability, then they can save lives by creating longer transplant times. Organs would be froze once removed from the deceased and thawed without damage to be placed in the awaiting recipient. Freezing the organ would increase the allowable time between removing and implanting (“Biological Miracle”). More transplants would be possible if freezing of the human organs was