Mean blood flow velocities (mean BPU ± s.e.m.) over dorsal and abdominal `control'skin patches on winter-acclimatized (WAC) and thermally non-challenged (NOC)pigeons
| . | Dorsal skin . | . | . | Abdominal skin . | . | . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | WAC . | NOC . | P* . | WAC . | NOC . | P* . | ||||
| Baseline | 146.9±8.92 (N=5) | 112.4±9.69 (N=6) | 0.0009 | 226.4±16.01 (N=5) | 231.2±8.06 (N=6) | 0.7912 | ||||
| 0.6048† | 0.0003 | 0.0016† | 0.0091 | |||||||
| Control | 140.1±6.61 (N=5) | 182.5±4.71 (N=6) | 0.0004 | 473.4±35.73 (N=5) | 156.5±11.74 (N=6) | 0.0002 | ||||
| . | Dorsal skin . | . | . | Abdominal skin . | . | . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | WAC . | NOC . | P* . | WAC . | NOC . | P* . | ||||
| Baseline | 146.9±8.92 (N=5) | 112.4±9.69 (N=6) | 0.0009 | 226.4±16.01 (N=5) | 231.2±8.06 (N=6) | 0.7912 | ||||
| 0.6048† | 0.0003 | 0.0016† | 0.0091 | |||||||
| Control | 140.1±6.61 (N=5) | 182.5±4.71 (N=6) | 0.0004 | 473.4±35.73 (N=5) | 156.5±11.74 (N=6) | 0.0002 | ||||
BPU, blood perfusion unit; baseline, calculated from stabilized pre-treatment values for the control skin patch; control, calculated from stabilized values for the control skin patch after vehicle gel application;*P-value in horizontal comparison between acclimation states(unpaired t-test); †P-value in vertical comparison between baseline and control (paired t-test).