Novel indirect calorimetry technology to analyze metabolism in individual neonatal rodent pups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Dominguez, Jesus F ^a,b   Guo, Lixin ^c   Molnar, Marco A Carrasco ^d   Escobedo, Antonio Ballester ^d   Dunphy, Taylor ^a   Lund, Trent D ^e   Turman Jr , Jack E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Panlab Scientific Department   (Spain)

^e Stoelting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIMETRY; CARBON DIOXIDE EXCRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; RAT; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; LITTER SIZE; METHODOLOGY;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; LITTER SIZE; RATS;

EID: 69849100730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006790     Document Type: Article

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