The cranial arterio-venous temperature difference is related to respiratory evaporative heat loss in a panting species, the sheep (Ovis aries)

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-288

  Vesterdorf, Kristine ^a,b   Blache, Dominique ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arterio venous temperature difference; Heat stress; Mammal; Panting; Respiratory evaporative heat loss; Selective brain cooling; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78651476072     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-010-0513-7     Document Type: Article

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