Febrile response to infection in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 921-925

  Merchant, Mark ^a   Williams, Stephanie ^a   Trosclair III, Phillip L ^b   Elsey, Ruth M ^b   Mills, Kaili ^a  

^a MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Crocodilian; Fever; Lipopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PYROGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEVER; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THERMOREGULATION;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 36048937718     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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