The relationship of plasma indicators of lipid metabolism and muscle damage to overnight temperature in winter-acclimatized small birds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-94

  Swanson, David L ^a   Thomas, Nathan E ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Cold tolerance; Creatine kinase; Glycerol; Lipid metabolism; Thermogenesis; Triglycerides; Winter

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; GLYCEROL; INDICATOR; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHESIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLITE; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OVERWINTERING; SHIVERING; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOGENESIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

AVES; CARDUELIS TRISTIS; JUNCO HYEMALIS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; SPIZELLA ARBOREA;

EID: 33846591064     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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