Influence of housing conditions from weaning to adulthood on the ventilatory, thermoregulatory, and endocrine responses to hypoxia of adult female rats

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1474-1481

  Fournier, Sébastien ^a   Kinkead, Richard ^a   Joseph, Vincent ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemoreflex; Control of breathing; Environment; Hypoxia; Maternal separation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; LUNG VENTILATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THERMOREGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY; PROGESTERONE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84862062351     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01477.2011     Document Type: Article

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