Methodology of fever research: Why are polyphasic fevers often thought to be biphasic?

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 1 44-1, 1998, Pages

  Romanovsky, Andrej A ^a   Kulchitsky, Vladimir A ^a   Simons, Christopher T ^a   Sugimoto, Naotoshi ^a  

^a Legacy Holladay Park Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Body temperature oscillations; Lipopolysaccharides; Nonlinear dynamics; Rats; Restraint; Skin vasoconstriction; Stress hyperthermia; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031845949     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.1.r332     Document Type: Article

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