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Pyrogenic responses of the pika, Ochotona rufescens rufescens
T Sakai1, Y Kodama, S Horiuchi
1Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan.
Jikken Dobutsu. Experimental Animals
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
In 3-month-old male and female pikas, Ochotona rufescens rufescens, reared at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees C, the mean within-day body temperature was 39.2 degrees C without significant variance. At an ambient temperature of 35 degrees C it increased markedly in males while decreased slightly at 5 degrees C. The pikas showed lower sensitivity than Japanese white rabbits to a pyrogenic E. coli endotoxin.