No fever and leucocytosis in response to a lipopolysaccharide challenge in an insectivorous bat

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Stockmaier, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Dechmann, Dina K N ^a,b,c   Page, Rachel A ^c   O'Mara, M Teague ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Immune response; Lipopolysaccharide; Mass loss; Molossus; Toll like receptor 4; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

BAT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSECTIVORE; LIPID; PATHOGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; TORPOR;

EUMOPS; MAMMALIA; MOLOSSUS; MOLOSSUS MOLOSSUS;

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BAT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; FEVER; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; TORPOR; VETERINARY;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHIROPTERA; FEVER; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; TORPOR;

EID: 84941591542     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0576     Document Type: Article

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