PHA-induced inflammation is not energetically costly in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum (tuco-tucos)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-95

  Merlo, Julieta L ^a   Cutrera, Ana P ^a   Luna, Facundo ^a   Zenuto, Roxana R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Oxygen consumption; Seasonality; Trade off

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOMYS TALARUM; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACRONUTRIENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84902492599     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.05.021     Document Type: Article

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