Effects of environmental temperature, sex, and infection with Hymenolepis microstoma on the liver and bile duct weights of mice. 1985

W S Evans, and M Novak, and A Basilevsky

Liver weight of mice was significantly influenced, in order of decreasing prominence, by environmental temperature, infection with Hymenolepis microstoma and sex. Livers of infected and uninfected mice (both sexes) maintained at 5 C for 20 days were proportionally larger (alpha less than or equal to 0.05) than those from corresponding groups of mice kept at 35 C and, except for uninfected males, at 21 C. regardless of temperature, H. microstoma (single-worm infections) produced significant (alpha less than or equal to 0.05) hepatomegaly in all groups of female mice, but, in males, this occurred only in mice maintained at 5 C. At 21 C male mice had proportionally larger livers (alpha less than or equal to 0.05) than corresponding groups of females, but this sexual difference disappeared when mice were maintained at 5 or 35 C. Temperature and sex had a slight but significant effect on bile duct weight. Infection, on the other hand, produced a marked increase in the weight of this organ in both sexes at 5, 21 and 35 C.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008099 Liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances. Livers
D008297 Male Males
D009929 Organ Size The measurement of an organ in volume, mass, or heaviness. Organ Volume,Organ Weight,Size, Organ,Weight, Organ
D005260 Female Females
D006925 Hymenolepiasis Infection with tapeworms of the genus Hymenolepis. Hymenolepis Infection,Hymenolepiases,Hymenolepis Infections,Infection, Hymenolepis,Infections, Hymenolepis
D006926 Hymenolepis A genus of small tapeworms of birds and mammals. Hymenolepi
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001652 Bile Ducts The channels that collect and transport the bile secretion from the BILE CANALICULI, the smallest branch of the BILIARY TRACT in the LIVER, through the bile ductules, the bile ducts out the liver, and to the GALLBLADDER for storage. Bile Duct,Duct, Bile,Ducts, Bile
D012737 Sex Factors Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances. Factor, Sex,Factors, Sex,Sex Factor
D013696 Temperature The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms. Temperatures

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