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Febrile Response And Activity In The Crayfish, Pacifasticus Leniusculus Trowbridgii, Kenneth A. Fletcher
Febrile Response And Activity In The Crayfish, Pacifasticus Leniusculus Trowbridgii, Kenneth A. Fletcher
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Poikilothermic and endothermic animals demonstrate febrile response to infection with bacteria or to injection with endogenous pyrogen extract of Prostaglandin E1. Febrile response is measured in endotherms as a relative change in metabolically achieved body temperature and in poikilotherms as an increase in selected temperatures relative to previously established preferred temperatures. Final preferendum change with environmental factors or associated physiological states.
Crayfish Pacifasticus leniusculus trowbridgii were injected with 0.2 ml suspension of alcohol-killed gram-negative Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria in 0.9% saline. Injections were into the coxopodite of the cheliped. The crayfish were monitored in an aquatic thermal gradient by …