Correspondence: Alain Boussuges Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, BP 73-91223, Brétigny sur Orge, Paris, France Tel +331 6923 7443 Fax +331 6923 7002 Email [email protected] We have read with interest the study published in the International Journal of General Medicine entitled “Hypotensive response after water-walking and land walking exercise sessions in healthy trained a...

Background: It is well known that cold exposure experienced during occupational or recreational activities may adversely affect motor, cognitive performance, and health. Most research has used prolonged passive external rewarming modalities and focused on the direct effects on the kinetics of physiological and psychological responses in hypothermic subjects. However, the brief whole body rewarm...

To the Editor: The Comment by Fisher, Cannon and Nedergaard [1] on our recent paper [2] advocates use of the term ‘anapyrexia,’ which connotes a biologically defended decrease of body temperature; e.g., the opposite of a fever, to describe the subnormal core temperature of leptin-deficient ob/ob mice. Another option is the conjunction ‘regulated hypothermia’ [3], based on the Glossary of Terms ...

UNLABELLED Different stress hormones are released during prolonged exercise and passive hyperthermia. We hypothesized that these different hormonal responses could contribute to the different changes in the immune response during these two challenges. METHODS Eight subjects completed three trials in a randomized order. In the control trial (C), the subjects remained in a sitting posture for t...

Broiler chicks with high immune defense potential at hatching are of great value to the poultry industry. Heat stress can have immunosuppressive or immune stimulatory effect and Ascorbic Acid (AA) acts as anti-stressor and has important physiological functions in bird immune system development. This study aimed to assess the effect of intra egg injection of AA before incubation on development o...

The current study investigated the efficacy of a probiotic mixture on ameliorating heat stress-induced impairment of intestinal microflora, morphology, and barrier integrity in broilers. The probiotic mixture contained Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus subtilis, and Lactobacillus plantarum. Three hundred sixty 21-d-old Ross 308 male broilers were allocated in 4 experimental treatments, each of w...

the effects of chromium methionine supplementation on performance and serummetaboliteswere evaluated in broiler chickens.two experiments were conducted at22 oc, thermoneutral, (tn) and33±2 oc, heat stressed (hs) conditions. two hundred and eighty eight male broiler chicks (ross 308) were allocated to four treatments in a completely randomized design. treatments with 0 (control), 200, 400 or 800...

OBJECTIVES The laboratory mouse is presently the most common model for examining mechanisms of human physiology and disease. Housing temperatures can have a large impact on the outcome of such experiments and on their translatability to the human situation. Humans usually create for themselves a thermoneutral environment without cold stress, while laboratory mice under standard conditions (≈20°...