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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioessays. 2014 Jul 25;36(9):884–891. doi: 10.1002/bies.201400066

Table 1.

Differences between animals housed at Standard Temperature (ST) and Thermoneutral Temperature (TT)

ST TT
Core body temperature [4] = =
Metabolism [87] +
Heart rate [28] +
Food intake [17, 18] +
Weight [4, 15] +
Serum lipids [88] +
Norepinephrine production [88] +

Relative expression of the indicated measures is shown as = (equivalent), + (increased), or − (decreased) between ST and TT conditions.