How hot is the human body?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 419-420

  Sawka, Michael N ^a   Castellani, John W ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CALORIMETRY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERGOMETER; EXERCISE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETRY; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CALORIMETRY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34547653703     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00592.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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