An infrared thermographic study of surface temperature in the euthermic woodchuck (Marmota monax)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 129, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 557-562

  Phillips, P K ^a,b   Heath, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MIAMI DADE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat exchange; Infrared; Marmota; Surface temperature; Thermography; Thermoregulation; Vasomotion; Woodchuck

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT LOSS; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SCIURIDAE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOREGULATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX; WOODCHUCK;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA MONAX;

EID: 0034969087     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(01)00294-X     Document Type: Article

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