Acute, early thermal experience alters weaning onset in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 463-474

  Gerrish, Carolyn J ^a   Onischak, Caroline M ^a   Alberts, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fur growth; Oxygen consumption; Rats; Temperature; Thermal experience; Thermoregulatory development; Weaning onset

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; WEANING;

EID: 0031720490     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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