Daily regulation of body temperature rhythm in the camel (Camelus dromedarius) exposed to experimental desert conditions

Physiological Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Bouâouda, Hanan ^a,b   Achâaban, Mohamed R ^b   Ouassat, Mohammed ^b   Oukassou, Mohammed ^b   Piro, Mohamed ^b   Challet, Etienne ^a   El Allali, Khalid ^b   Pévet, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VÉTÉRINAIRE HASSAN II   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Adaptive heterothermy; Body temperature rhythm; Camel; Circadian clock; Dehydration; Food decrease; Heat stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; MINERAL; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PHOSPHORUS; RETINOL; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREATHING RATE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; DROMEDARY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; HEAT STRESS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HYDRATION; NONHUMAN; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RECUMBENCY; REHYDRATION; THERMOREGULATION; WEIGHT CHANGE;

EID: 84978041970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12151     Document Type: Article

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