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Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide maintains neonatal breathing but not metabolism during mild reductions in ambient temperature.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Mar 2008
Cummings Kevin J, Willie Chris, Wilson Richard J A
Abstract excerpt
Mild reductions in ambient temperature dramatically increase the mortality of neonatal mice deficient in pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), with the majority of animals succumbing in the second postnatal week. During anesthesia-induced hypothermia, PACAP(-/-) mice at this age are also vulnerable to prolonged apneas and sudden death. From these observations, we hypothesized that before the...
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