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Thermoregulation in the pigeon Columbia livia during the stress produced by food deprivation

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It has been established that development of nocturnal hypothermia in pigeons as the main strategy of survival during the food deprivation-produced stress is due to the more significant than in control (with unlimited food consumption) inhibition of thermoproduction in the course of contractile and possibly non-contractile thermogenesis, as well as due to a small increase of heat loss through skin of the open body parts. The dominating factors of the exit from nocturnal fasting during the nocturnal hypothermia are the earlier and stronger (as compared with control) activation of contractile thermogenesis and the long peripheral vasoconstriction leading to reduction of the heat loss. The reduction of the heat loss is suggested to be an additional adaptive mechanism alongside with a significant decrease of the body and brain temperatures; this mechanism promotes saving energy expenditure and a reduction of the fasting-produced stress.

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Translated from Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2005, pp. 62–68.

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Ekimova, I.V. Thermoregulation in the pigeon Columbia livia during the stress produced by food deprivation. J Evol Biochem Phys 41, 78–86 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10893-005-0038-y

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