The telemetric monitoring of heart rate, locomotor activity, and body temperature in mice and voles (Microtus arvalis) during ambient temperature changes

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-12

  Ishii, K ^a   Kuwahara, M ^a   Tsubone, H ^a   Sugano, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Cold exposure; Heart rate; Heat exposure; Locomotive activity; Mice; Telemetry; Voles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VOLE;

EID: 0030068252     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367796780744992     Document Type: Article

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