Fever response in lean (Fa/-) and obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats and its lack to repeated injections of LPS

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 787-793

  Rosenthal, Monika ^a   Roth, Joachim ^a   Störr, Birgit ^a   Zeisberger, Eugen ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Fever; HPLC with electrochemical detection; Lean; Lipopolysaccharide; Noradrenaline; Obese; Radiotelemetry; Stress; Zucker rats

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TELEMETRY; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0029926933     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02158-2     Document Type: Article

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