Cold defense mechanisms in vagotomized rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 2 42-2, 1997, Pages

  Romanovsky, Andrej A ^a   Kulchitsky, Vladimir A ^a,b   Simons, Christopher T ^a   Sugimoto, Naotoshi ^a,d   Székely, Miklós ^a,c  

^a LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brown fat; Cold exposure; Ephedrine; Skin vasoconstriction; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; VAGOTOMY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0030826956     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.2.r784     Document Type: Article

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