In Mr. Bonner's case file at Leben, it was scrawled only that he had hyperthermia, a spike in body temperature.
Serotonin is catabolized by monoamine oxidase in the presence of oxygen, so if care is taken to prevent an unsafe spike in body temperature or metabolic acidosis, oxygenation will assist in dispatching the excess serotonin.
A new device for football helmets warns of the dangerous spikes in body temperature associated with heatstroke.
Collisions between a runner and catcher — pileups of dirt and spikes, with body parts splaying in multiple directions — are a frightening but legal part of the game.
Instead of squirting ink to escape predators, the fist-size glass squid above on the left hides in plain sight, pulling its tentacles and head inside its spike-covered body cavity.
But they got likely extinguished a few 100 Ma later, when the last giant impactor, which was probably associated with the spike of bodies that invaded the inner solar system around 4 Ga ago, blew off the earlier massive micrometeoritic atmosphere of Mars and all ingredients of the early greenhouse effect.
Even when ravers think they are taking the drug correctly, the variability of quality in a pill of molly can cause unregulated spikes in body temperature.
Calbindin and neurofilament immunostaining of Purkinje neurons revealed spherical dendritic swellings covered in fine spikes ('asteroid bodies'), dysmorphic dendritic trees forming 'weeping willow' arrangements, and occasional Purkinje cell bodies covered in somal sprouts suggestive of deafferentation (Fig. 2M O).
The pint-size mammal lives mostly in mountainous areas in the western United States and Canada, and even a small spike in its body temperature is fatal.
When we're hungry, it's barely detectable in the brain; after a meal, however, its levels spike, signaling the body to start burning energy.
