Nitrous oxide causes a regulated hypothermia: Rats select a cooler ambient temperature while becoming hypothermic

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-85

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute tolerance; Allostasis; Behavioral thermoregulation; Intrasessional tolerance; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT LOSS; HYPOTHERMIA; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOGENESIS;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; NITROUS OXIDE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79952486989     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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