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Basal Digital Thermometer How to Use Instructions for Use 1
BASAL DIGITAL THERMOMETER HOW TO USE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE 1. The probe is folded into the body of the thermometer for storage. Unfold the probe and Please read thoroughly before using KD-2160 disinfect with rubbing alcohol before using. FEATURES 2. Press and release the on/off button. The display will read or 3. Next the display will show L°F or L°C with the °F or °C flashing. This basal digital thermometer is intended to measure the human body temperature for 4. Place the probe under the tongue as described and shown below. women. It’s precise digital display is for using in a household environment. 5. Once the degree sign °F (°C) on the display has stopped flashing, the measured temperature is indicated. 1. Oral temperature measurement in approximately 30 seconds with proper use. 2. 40 sets of memories. Recall all memories using NFC (Near Field Communication) or the 6. The unit will automatically turn off in approx. 3 minutes. However, to prolong battery life, headset jack adaptor on your mobile device. it is best to turn off the thermometer by pressing the ON/OFF button once the 3. Very sensitive unit, easy to read digital LCD (liquid crystal display). temperature has been noted. 4. Compact, accurate and durable LSI (large scale integration) unit. 5. If the thermometer is inadvertently left on after temperature stabilization, it will automatically ORAL USE shut off after approximately 3 minutes. Place the probe well under the patient's tongue with the probe 6. Small, light weight unit with “store-away” probe and a handy carry case. -
Calcitonin Receptors Are Ancient Modulators for Rhythms of Preferential Temperature in Insects and Body Temperature in Mammals
Downloaded from genesdev.cshlp.org on October 7, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Calcitonin receptors are ancient modulators for rhythms of preferential temperature in insects and body temperature in mammals Tadahiro Goda,1,5 Masao Doi,2,5 Yujiro Umezaki,1 Iori Murai,2 Hiroyuki Shimatani,2 Michelle L. Chu,1 Victoria H. Nguyen,1 Hitoshi Okamura,2 and Fumika N. Hamada1,3,4,6 1Visual Systems Group, Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA; 2Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; 3Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA; 4Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA Daily body temperature rhythm (BTR) is essential for maintaining homeostasis. BTR is regulated separately from locomotor activity rhythms, but its molecular basis is largely unknown. While mammals internally regulate BTR, ectotherms, including Drosophila, exhibit temperature preference rhythm (TPR) behavior to regulate BTR. Here, we demonstrate that the diuretic hormone 31 receptor (DH31R) mediates TPR during the active phase in Drosophila. DH31R is expressed in clock cells, and its ligand, DH31, acts on clock cells to regulate TPR during the active phase. Surprisingly, the mouse homolog of DH31R, calcitonin receptor (Calcr), is expressed in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and mediates body temperature fluctuations during the active phase in mice. Importantly, DH31R and Calcr are not required for coordinating locomotor activity rhythms. Our results represent the first molecular evidence that BTR is regulated distinctly from locomotor activity rhythms and show that DH31R/Calcr is an ancient specific mediator of BTR during the active phase in organisms ranging from ectotherms to endotherms. -
Effect of Ethanol on Thermoregulation in the Goldfish, Carassius Auratus
Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 1986 Effect of ethanol on thermoregulation in the goldfish, Carassius auratus Candace Sharon O'Connor Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Biology Commons, and the Physiology Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation O'Connor, Candace Sharon, "Effect of ethanol on thermoregulation in the goldfish, Carassius auratus" (1986). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3703. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.5587 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS of Candace Sharon O'Connor for the Master of Science in Biology presented May 16, 1986. Title: Effect of Ethanol on Thermoregulation in the Goldfish, Carassius auratus. APPROVED BY MEMBERS OF THE TIIBSIS COMMITTEE: Leonard Simpson In an attempt to elucidate the mechanism by which ethanol affects vertebrate thermoregulation, the effect of ethanol on temperature selection was studied in the goldfish, Carassius auratus. Ethanol was administered to 10 to 15 g fish by mixing it in the water of a temperature gradient. The dose response curve was very steep between 0.5% (v/v) ethanol (no response) and 0.7% (significant lowering of selected temperature in treated fish). Fish were exposed to concentrations of ethanol as high as 1.7%, at which concentration most experimental fish lost their ability to swim upright in the water. -
Rethinking the Normal Human Body Temperature
CART FREE HEALTHBEAT SIGNUP SHOP ▼ SIGN IN What can we help you 繠nd? HEART HEALTH MIND & MOOD PAIN STAYING CANCER DISEASES & MEN'S HEALTH WOMEN'S HEALTHY CONDITIONS HEALTH Normal Body Temperature : Rethinking the normal human body temperature The 98.6° F "normal" benchmark for body temperature comes to us from Dr. Carl Wunderlich, a 19th-century German physician who collected and analyzed over a million armpit temperatures for 25,000 patients. Some of Wunderlich's observations have stood up over time, but his de繠nition of normal has been debunked, says the April issue of the Harvard Health Letter {http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter.htm}. A study published years ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the average normal temperature for adults to be 98.2°, not 98.6°, and replaced the 100.4° fever mark with fever thresholds based on the time of day. Now, researchers at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., have found support for another temperature truism doctors have long recognized: Older people have lower temperatures. In a study of 150 older people with an average age of about 81, they found that the average temperature never reached 98.6°. These 繠ndings suggest that even when older people are ill, their body temperature may not reach levels that people recognize as fever. On the other hand, body temperatures that are too low (about 95°) can also be a sign of illness. The bottom line is that individual variations in body temperature should be taken into account, reports the Harvard Health Letter. -
Decreasing Human Body Temperature in the United States Since the Industrial Revolution
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/729913; this version posted August 8, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the Industrial Revolution Myroslava Protsiv1, Catherine Ley1, Joanna Lankester2, Trevor Hastie3,4, Julie Parsonnet1,5,* Affiliations: 5 1Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305. 2 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine CA 94305. 3Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. 4Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, 10 CA, 94305. 5Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305 *Correspondence to: Julie Parsonnet, 300 Pasteur Dr., Lane L134, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. [email protected]. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/729913; this version posted August 8, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 15 ABSTRACT In the US, the normal, oral temperature -
Ostrich Production Systems Part I: a Review
11111111111,- 1SSN 0254-6019 Ostrich production systems Food and Agriculture Organization of 111160mmi the United Natiorp str. ro ucti s ct1rns Part A review by Dr M.M. ,,hanawany International Consultant Part II Case studies by Dr John Dingle FAO Visiting Scientist Food and , Agriculture Organization of the ' United , Nations Ot,i1 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. M-21 ISBN 92-5-104300-0 Reproduction of this publication for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of this publication for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission, with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction, should be addressed to the Director, Information Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale dells Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. C) FAO 1999 Contents PART I - PRODUCTION SYSTEMS INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE OSTRICH 5 Classification of the ostrich in the animal kingdom 5 Geographical distribution of ratites 8 Ostrich subspecies 10 The North -
Effect of Body Temperature on the Pattern of Spontaneous Breathing in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Supported by Proportional Assist Ventilation
0031-3998/03/5403-0332 PEDIATRIC RESEARCH Vol. 54, No. 3, 2003 Copyright © 2003 International Pediatric Research Foundation, Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Effect of Body Temperature on the Pattern of Spontaneous Breathing in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Supported by Proportional Assist Ventilation ESTHER RIEGER-FACKELDEY, SUSANNE SCHALLER-BALS, AND ANDREAS SCHULZE Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology–Grosshadern, Division of Neonatology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, D-81377 Munich, Germany ABSTRACT The optimum body temperature for infants Ͻ1000 g is un- 0.001) as a result of a difference in RR (8%; p Ͻ 0.001). The Ϯ known. We investigated body temperature effects on spontane- infants maintained their blood CO2 levels and Vt (5.25 0.6 ous breathing using proportional assist ventilation (PAV), be- versus 5.19 Ϯ 0.6 mL/kg). Incidence and duration of respiratory cause this mode supports spontaneous breathing such that all pauses were not different between conditions. Extremely imma- breathing pattern variables remain controlled by the infant. ture infants who are supported by PAV modify their spontaneous Minute volume (MV), respiratory rate (RR), tidal volume (Vt), breathing in response to changes in thermal environment such incidence and duration of respiratory pauses, arterial oxygen that PCO2 levels are appropriately maintained early in postnatal Ͻ desaturations 85%, and arterial PCO2 levels will remain unaf- life. This response pattern occurred consistently and is currently fected by targeting core body temperature to 36.1–36.5°C (low of uncertain clinical significance. (Pediatr Res 54: 332–336, normal range) versus 37.7–37.9°C (upper normal). -
Hypothermia Hyperthermia Normothemic
Means normal body temperature. Normal body core temperature ranges from 99.7ºF to 99.5ºF. A fever is a Normothemic body temperature of 99.5 to 100.9ºF and above. Humans are warm-blooded mammals who maintain a constant body temperature (euthermia). Temperature regulation is controlled by the hypothalamus in the base of the brain. The hypothalamus functions as a thermostat for the body. Temperature receptors (thermoreceptors) are located in the skin, certain mucous membranes, and in the deeper tissues of the body. When an increase in body temperature is detected, the hypothalamus shuts off body mechanisms that generate heat (for example, shivering). When a decrease in body temperature is detected, the hypothalamus shuts off body mechanisms designed to cool the body (for example, sweating). The body continuously adjusts the metabolic rate in order to maintain a constant CORE Hypothermia Core body temperatures of 95ºF and lower is considered hypothermic can cause the heart and nervous system to begin to malfunction and can, in many instances, lead to severe heart, respiratory and other problems that can result in organ damage and death.Hannibal lost nearly half of his troops while crossing the Pyrenees Alps in 218 B.C. from hypothermia; and only 4,000 of Napoleon Bonaparte’s 100,000 men survived the march back from Russia in the winter of 1812 - most dying of starvation and hypothermia. During the sinking of the Titanic most people who entered the 28°F water died within 15–30 minutes. Symptoms: First Aid : Mild hypothermia: As the body temperature drops below 97°F there is Call 911 or emergency medical assistance. -
Investigating the Thermal Biology of Round Gobies by Justin Mark
Behavioural Thermoregulation and Escape Behaviour: Investigating the Thermal Biology of Round Gobies By Justin Mark Bridgeman Bachelor of Science, 2014, Brock University Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Brock University, Faculty of Mathematics and Science Department of Biological Sciences St. Catharines, Ontario © 2019 Abstract The invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) has successfully colonized all of the Great Lakes since its discovery in the region in 1991, yet little is known about its thermal biology. The focus of this thesis was to examine the effect of acclimation to unseasonably warm temperatures on round goby behavioural thermoregulation, as well as behavioural and physiological performance during escapes with warm acute temperatures. Juvenile gobies were acclimated to either 21°C or 24°C for each set of experiments. I first examined goby thermal preference in a shuttlebox through their ability to escape from unfavourable temperatures. I found that escape temperatures were plastic following acclimation to a rise in 3°C rise in temperature (+3°C) and associated positively with acclimation temperature, even though gobies showed slightly lower-than-expected average escape temperatures in each acclimation treatment. Interestingly, acclimation to +3°C leads to lower exploratory behaviour in warm waters and lower overall activity levels during behavioural thermoregulation. In risky situations involving threat of predation, exploratory behaviour is often linked to boldness. Next I investigated exploratory swimming through two behavioural traits: ability to voluntarily enter a tunnel and subsequent swimming activity while being chased in a detour task. Detour tasks require a fish to swim down a narrow space and then detour to the left or right as they approach a barrier. -
Mammalogy Lecture 17 – Thermoregulation/Water Balance I
Mammalogy Lecture 17 – Thermoregulation/Water Balance I. Introduction. Obviously, mammals are endotherms; they regulate body temperature via metabolic processes by burning energy. For all endotherms, there is a Thermal Neutral Zone When TA is low, energy is expended to keep warm. When TA is high, energy is expended to keep cool But for every endothermic species, there is a thermal neutral zone, the range of ambient temperatures across which there’s no higher cost of homeothermy. TLC - highest temperature at which an endotherm expends energy to stay warm TUC - lowest temperature at which an endotherm expends energy to stay cool Obviously, when ambient temperatures are either below TLC or above TUC, there is a metabolic cost to homeothermy (maintaining a constant body temperature). II. Adaptations for Cold – Temperatures in Zone A A. Large Size - B. High Basal Metabolic Rate - Cold adapted species have a higher than expected basal metabolic rate. For example, Red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, have a BMR that’s nearly twice as high as similar sized canids in warmer regions. C. Insulation - Pelage - forms a barrier of warm air next to the surface of the animal. Blubber - subcutaneous fat is commonly used as an insulating mechanism in marine mammals. D. Regional Heterothermy Extremities may be allowed to cool, sometimes to very low temperatures. This is accomplished by vasoconstriction. Urocitellus paryii - toe pads may be 2 o - 5 o C Ondatra zibethicus – extremities are allowed to cool to water temperature E. Systemic Heterothermy – Adaptive Hypothermia Characterized by: - Decreased heart rate - Vasoconstriction - severe reduction of blood flow to the extremities - Decreased breathing rate - Suppression of shivering - Decreased oxygen consumption (decreased metabolic rate) - Decreased body temperature There is usually great energy savings associated with hypothermia. -
The Evolution of Endothermy and Its Diversity in Mammals and Birds Author(S): Gordon C
Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology The Evolution of Endothermy and Its Diversity in Mammals and Birds Author(s): Gordon C. Grigg, Lyn A. Beard, and Michael L. Augee Source: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Vol. 77, No. 6, Sixth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Symposium Papers: Evolution and Advantages of Endothermy (November/December 2004), pp. 982-997 Published by: The University of Chicago Press. Sponsored by the Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/425188 . Accessed: 08/11/2015 23:11 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. The University of Chicago Press and Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 23.235.32.0 on Sun, 8 Nov 2015 23:11:10 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 982 The Evolution of Endothermy and Its Diversity in Mammals and Birds Gordon C. Grigg1 thermy, including the capacity for homeothermic endothermy Lyn A. -
Temperature, Physiology, and the Ecology of Reptiles
Temperature, Physiology, and the Ecology of Reptiles RAYMOND B. HUEY Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. There is a great mass of information available concerning temperature as an ecological factor, but its actual operation is sometimes difficult to evaluate. A. HISTORICAL VIEWS OF TEMPERATURE AND REPTILIAN ECOLOGY The physiological differences of reptiles from other tetrapods have important ecological consequences. For example, their low metabolic rates (Bennett and Dawson, 1976) let reptiles drain environmental resources much less intensively than do birds and mammals. Their relatively impermeable integuments (Lillywhite and Maderson; Mautz, this volume) keep reptiles less closely constrained by hydric conditions than most amphibians (Kiester, 1971; Tracy, 1978; Nagy, this volume). These fundamental biological differences suggest that ecological and physiological studies of reptiles should complement rather than merely supplement parallel studies of other vertebrates (Pianka, 1977; Schoener, 1977; Regal, 1978; Schall and Pianka, 1978; A very, 1979; Pough, 1980, in press). The important discovery that desert reptiles behaviorally regulate body temperature was the first dramatic contribution of studies of reptiles to general ecological thought (Cowles and Bogert, 1944; Avery, this volume). By demonstrating that thermal homeostasis can be achieved by behavioral as well as by physiological adjustments and is a property of "lower" as well as of "higher" animals, this discovery revolutionized the philosophy and methodology of physiology and ecology. The demonstration that tempera- ture is intimately involved with the daily lives of reptiles, provided a unique focus for early ecological studies of reptiles. Indeed, for many years, few herpetologists departed for the field without several Schultheis ther- mometers! The concept that temperature is a fundamental factor in the ecology of Physiology.