Testosterone modifies response to chronic heat exposure in rats

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 575-578

  Shvareva, Nellia ^a   Kaplanski, Jacob ^a   Abramovich, Lada ^a   Sod Moriah, Uriel A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body weight; Corticosterone; Heat adaptation; Orchiectomy; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032125342     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10078-8     Document Type: Article

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