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Fever in mammals: is it beneficial?
Fever appears to protect ectotherms against infectious disease perhaps because it increases their aerobic metabolic capacity, which is temperature-dependent. Mammals, however, have a high aerobic capacity and normally regulate a high body temperature. Thus, the further increase in temperature induce...
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
1986
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2590121/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3739371 |