Profound changes in blood parameters during torpor in a South American marsupial

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 338-342

  Franco, Marcela ^a   Contreras, Carolina ^a   Nespolo, Roberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Blood biochemistry; Haematology; Hibernation; Marsupials; Metabolic rate; Microbiotheria

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIBERNATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOPENIA; LIPID METABOLISM; LYMPHOCYTE; MARSUPIAL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

DIDELPHIMORPHIA; DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIA;

BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY; HAEMATOLOGY; HIBERNATION; MARSUPIALS; METABOLIC RATE; MICROBIOTHERIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PROTEINS; LIPIDS; MARSUPIALIA; SEASONS; TORPOR;

EID: 84881089037     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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