Melatonin and chlorpromazine: Thermal selection and metabolic rate in the bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 271-277

  Lutterschmidt, Deborah I ^a   Lutterschmidt, William I ^a   Hutchison, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorpromazine; Hormones; Melatonin; Metabolic rate; Oxygen consumption; Pineal; Pituophis melanoleucus; Snakes; Therma l selection; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; MELATONIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE ACTION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; THERMOREGULATION;

PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS;

EID: 0031435275     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(97)00106-0     Document Type: Article

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