Unpredictable deprivation of water increases the probability of torpor in the Syrian hamster

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 551-556

  Ibuka, Nobuo ^a   Fukumura, Kanae ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Hibernation; Syrian hamster; Unpredictability; Water

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIBERNATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS ATROPHY; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0030884760     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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