The effects of reduced temperature and photoperiod on body composition in hibernator and non-hibernator rodents

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Acclimatization 25%
• Adrenal Glands 10%
• Atrophy 17%
• Basal Metabolism 12%
• Body Composition 77%
• Brown Adipose Tissue 24%
• Cardiomegaly 10%
• Cardiovascular System 9%
• Cold Temperature 70%
• Cricetinae 30%
• Diaphragm 20%
• Genitalia 9%
• Growth 14%
• Heart 6%
• Hibernation 14%
• Homeostasis 7%
• Hyperphagia 12%
• Hypertrophy 17%
• Light 6%
• Lung 5%
• Maintenance 13%
• Muscles 5%
• Photoperiod 100%
• Pineal Gland 12%
• Pressure 6%
• Respiratory System 9%
• Rodentia 65%
• Shivering 13%
• Skeletal Muscle 15%
• Temperature 56%
• Thermogenesis 36%
• Thyroid Gland 8%
• Vascular Resistance 9%
• Ventilation 8%
• Workload 9%

Agriculture & Biology

• acclimation 17%
• ambient temperature 7%
• atrophy 22%
• basal metabolic rate 12%
• body composition 80%
• brown adipose tissue 23%
• cardiovascular system 12%
• diaphragm 22%
• energy 5%
• hamsters 27%
• heart 7%
• heat production 31%
• hibernation 11%
• homeostasis 8%
• hormonal regulation 11%
• hypertrophy 31%
• lungs 7%
• muscles 6%
• overeating 13%
• photoperiod 63%
• pineal body 11%
• rats 10%
• reproductive system 11%
• respiratory system 10%
• rodents 66%
• seasonal variation 8%
• selection pressure 9%
• skeletal muscle 18%
• summer 6%
• temperature 31%
• winter 6%

Chemistry

• Brown 81%
• Energy 18%
• Metabolic 64%
• Pressure 22%
• Reduction 17%
• Resistance 24%
• Strength 24%
• Thyroid 49%
• Time 14%