Direct animal calorimetry, the underused gold standard for quantifying the fire of life

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 252-264

  Kaiyala, Karl J ^a   Ramsay, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal heat production; Diabetes; Drug tolerance; Energy expenditure; Homeostasis; Metabolic rate; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; CALORIMETRY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIRECT ANIMAL CALORIMETRY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERANCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GOLD STANDARD; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; RESPIROMETRY; REVIEW; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79251600859     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.04.013     Document Type: Review

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