Juvenile Siberian hamsters display torpor and modified locomotor activity and body temperature rhythms in response to reduced food availability

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 858-867

  Bae, Helen H ^a   Larkin, Jennie E ^a   Zucker, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LOCOMOTION; TORPOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HAMSTER; LOCOMOTION; PHODOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; TELEMETRY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRICETINAE; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LOCOMOTION; PHODOPUS; SLEEP; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2142722209     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381462     Document Type: Article

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