Temperature regulation in laboratory rodents / Christopher J. Gordon.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to temperature regulation
- Brief historical perspective
- Current research status of thermoregulation
- Why study laboratory rodents?
- Overview of temperature regulation in rodents
- Do rodents provide a suitable model for human thermoregulation?
- Neurology of temperature regulation
- Temperature sensitivity of the CNS
- Neurophysiological studies
- Neuropharmacological agents
- CNS lesions and temperature regulation
- Fever
- Metabolism
- Partitioning of metabolism
- Methods for measuring metabolism
- Basal metabolism
- Metabolism during hibernation
- Maximum (peak) metabolic rate
- Metabolic thermoneutral zone
- Physical factors affecting metabolism
- Thermoregulatory effector responses
- Peripheral vasomotor tone
- Metabolic (facultative) thermogenesis
- Evaporative heat loss
- Behavioral thermoregulatory effectors
- Motor activity as a thermoregulatory effector? - Body temperature
- Partitioning of body temperature
- Core temperature
- Brain thermal homeostasis
- Thermal tolerance
- Circadian temperature rhythm. (cont) Effects of psychological stress on body temperature
- Growth, reproduction, development, and aging
- Optimal thermal conditions for growth
- Effects of thermal stress on reproductive function
- Development of thermoregulation from birth to weaning
- Aging and thermoregulation
- Temperature acclimation
- Terminology
- Acclimation to cold
- Acclimation to heat
- Gender and intraspecies differences
- Gender differences
- Intraspecies differences
- Thermoregulation during chemical toxicity, physical trauma, and other adverse environmental conditions
- Chemical toxicity
- Hypoxia and ischemia
- Trauma and shock
- Hypergravity
- Regulated hypothermia: a generalized protective mechanism?