Endotoxin injection attenuates rest-phase hypothermia in wintering great tits through the onset of fever

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 236-244

  Nord, Andreas ^a   Chiriac, Sandra ^a   Hasselquist, Dennis ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; Body temperature; Ecological immunology; Heterothermy; LPS; Metabolism; Parus major; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BOREAL FOREST; COLD REGION; ENDOTHERMY; ENERGY BUDGET; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; OVERWINTERING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; TOXIN; TRADE-OFF; WINTER;

SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84873087733     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12003     Document Type: Article

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