title: [Continuous measuring of heat production during the course of the day in fully grown rats at different nutrition levels and different environmental temperatures].
abstract: The heat production of 4 rats was measured by means of indirect calorimetry over 20 h/d at intervals of 4 min at ambient temperatures of 30, 25, 20 and 15 degrees C and feed intakes of 0, 4, 8 and 12 g/d. When the rats were hungry, their heat production was reduced by between 8 and 44 kJ/kg LW0.75.d. Feed intake increased heat production by between 54 and 102%. In the temperature range between 20 and 30 degrees C the rats required 0.36 kJ or 2.4% resp. of the metabolizable energy for the intake of 1 g feed. At 15 degrees C the corresponding values were 0.48 kJ or 3.2% resp. The activity-conditioned quota of heat production was estimated as 31 +/- 10%. In the temperature range of between 30 and 25 degrees C thermoregulatory heat production amounted to 5 and that in the temperature range between 25 and 15 degrees C to 20 kJ/kg LW0.75.d.K. No compensation of thermoregulatory heat by heat from increase of energy intake could be proved in the temperature range between 15 and 30 degrees C.
authors.affiliation: Forschungszentrum für Tierproduktion Dummerstorf-Rostock der Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften der DDR Bereich Tierernährung Oskar Kellner.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D001835:Body Weight; D002151:Calorimetry; D004435:Eating; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains / Q000378:metabolism*; D013696:Temperature
vernacular_title: Kontinuierliche Messung der Wärmeproduktion im Tagesverlauf an ausgewachsenen Ratten bei unterschiedlichem Ernährungsniveau und unterschiedlicher Umgebungstemperatur.