Impaired control of body cooling during heterothermia represents the major energetic constraint in an aging non-human primate exposed to cold

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Terrien, Jeremy ^a   Zahariev, Alexandre ^b   Blanc, Stephane ^b   Aujard, Fabienne ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PROSIMIAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER METABOLISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; COLD; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; TIME;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CHEIROGALEIDAE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449555086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007587     Document Type: Article

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