Rate and composition of sweat fluid losses are unaltered by hypohydration during prolonged exercise in horses

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1133-1143

  Kingston, Janene K ^a   Geor, Raymond J ^a,b   McCutcheon, Laura Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equine; Evaporative heat loss; Ion losses; Sweating rate; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; EXERCISE; HEAT LOSS; HORSE; HYDRATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEAT; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0030764129     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.83.4.1133     Document Type: Article

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