Rates of rewarming, heart and respiratory rates and their significance for oxygen transport during arousal from torpor in the smallest mammal, the Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1451-1458

  Fons, Roger ^a   Sender, Susanne ^b   Peters, Thomas ^b   Jürgens, Klaus D ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Brown adipose tissue; Electrocardiogram; Etruscan shrew; Heart rate; Oxygen Transport; Rate of Rewarming; Respiratory rate; Suncus etruscus; Thermogenesis; Torpor

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; HIBERNATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SHREW;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; HIBERNATION; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SHREWS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS ETRUSCUS;

EID: 0031149563     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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