Behavioral approach to the study of the upper limit of temperature tolerance in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 183-189

  Caputa, Michał ^a   Dokładny, Karol ^a   Kurowicka, Beata ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Brain temperature; Critical thermal maximum; Heat escape behavior; Motor activity; Selective brain cooling

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; KETAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0032144906     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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