Table 1.

Body weight, food intake, creatinine, blood urea nitroben, osmolality, and copeptin

	NT Control Group	DNP Group	Heat Group	DNP + Heat Group
Body weight before the experiment, g	27.77 ± 0.68	29.88 ± 2.05	29.34 ± 1.21	27.99 ± 0.93
Body weight after 10 days of the experiment, g	26.50 ± 0.55	27.57 ± 1.22	26.24 ± 0.80	25.63 ± 0.99
ΔBody weight after 10 days of the experiment, g	−1.27 ± 0.30	−2.31 ± 0.86	−3.09 ± 0.55	−2.35 ± 0.20
Average Δbody weight after heat exposure/day, g	−0.50 ± 0.19	−0.64 ± 0.07	−1.00 ± 0.19	−1.52 ± 0.12a
Food intake, g·mouse−1·day−1	3.22 ± 0.16	2.28 ± 0.12	2.19 ± 0.40	2.48 ± 0.30
Serum creatinine, mg/dl	0.79 ± 0.08	1.00 ± 0.04b	0.62 ± 0.05	0.96 ± 0.04c
Blood urea nitrogen, mg/dl	25.25 ± 1.38	25.57 ± 1.48	23.65 ± 0.80	36.79 ± 0.84d
Serum osmolality, mosm	323.2 ± 3.9	345.1 ± 3.5	329.6 ± 3.5	362.4 ± 13.7e
Serum copeptin, pg/ml	112.9 ± 11.2	115.2 ± 4.0	127.2 ± 5.4	158.7 ± 7.0f

Values are means ± SE. NT, nontreated; DNP, 2,4-dinitrophenol.

^aP < 0.001 vs. the NT control group and P < 0.01 vs. the DNP group;

^bP < 0.05 vs. the NT control group and P < 0.001 vs. the heat group;

^cP < 0.01 vs. the heat group;

^dP < 0.001 vs. the NT control, DNP, and heat groups;

^eP < 0.01 vs. the NT control group and P < 0.05 vs. the heat group;

^fP < 0.01 vs. the NT control and DNP groups and P < 0.05 between the DNP + heat group and the other groups.