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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 218, 期 18, 页码 2961-2969出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.122150
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Acute phase response; Circadian variation; Dose dependence; Heterothermy; LPS; Sickness behaviour; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch
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- Swedish Research Council [637-2013-7442]
- Linnaeus Research Excellence Center 'CAnMove' - Swedish Research Council
- Lund University
- Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
- Lund Animal Protection Foundation
Although fever (a closely regulated increase in body temperature in response to infection) typically is beneficial, it is energetically costly and may induce detrimentally high body temperatures. This can increase the susceptibility to energetic bottlenecks and risks of overheating in some organisms. Accordingly, it could be particularly interesting to study fever in small birds, which have comparatively high metabolic rates and high, variable body temperatures. We therefore investigated two aspects of fever and other sickness behaviours (circadian variation, dose dependence) in a small songbird, the zebra finch. We injected lipopolysaccharide (LPS) at the beginning of either the day or the night, and subsequently monitored body temperature, body mass change and food intake for the duration of the response. We found pronounced circadian variation in the body temperature response to LPS injection, manifested by (dose-dependent) hypothermia during the day but fever at night. This resulted in body temperature during the peak response being relatively similar during the day and night. Day-to-night differences might be explained in the context of circadian variation in body temperature: songbirds have a high daytime body temperature that is augmented by substantial heat production peaks during activity. This might require a trade-off between the benefit of fever and the risk of overheating. In contrast, at night, when body temperature is typically lower and less variable, fever can be used to mitigate infection. We suggest that the change in body temperature during infection in small songbirds is context dependent and regulated to promote survival according to individual demands at the time of infection.
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