Respiratory responses in heat-exposed rabbits: inhibition of tachypnoea offset by increase in tidal volume.
Rabbits in which thermal panting has been inhibiting by previous cold exposure or by water deprivation respond to a raised ambient temperature with an increase in tidal volume. By so doing, they are able to maintain a minute volume appropriate to their thermoregulatory requirements.
D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature; D003080:Cold Temperature; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation; D011817:Rabbits; D012119:Respiration; D013990:Tidal Volume; D014868:Water Deprivation