Abstract

The daily metabolic cycle of fully fed, adult white mice, at temperatures from − 8 °C. to 37 °C., averaged 48 ml. of oxygen per mouse per hour between the highest nocturnal and lowest diurnal values, but this value was significantly greater at the higher temperatures. Over the same temperature range, forced activity of mice in a rotating metabolism chamber, up to approximately one-half the maximum running speeds studied, resulted in direct superimposition of work metabolism upon that of rest, with a constant metabolic increment at all temperatures. At the maximum running speeds the metabolism produced by the work decreased with decreasing temperature, with some gain in efficiency. The daily metabolic cycle fell within the activity range in which a given degree of work produced the same increment in oxygen consumption at all temperatures. These studies lead to the hypothesis that, in mice, some of the metabolic components of the daily cycle are additive over the biokinetic range. This results in a very large energy expenditure at low temperatures.

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