Fig 1.
Photoperiod and temperature profile used to simulate control, transition, and heat wave temperatures.
The white areas represent day time and shaded areas represent night time. The black lines represent changes in experimental condition, with the control temperatures lasted 5 days, transition temperatures lasted 1 day and the simulated heat wave lasted 3 days. The red line represents the temperature cycle that animals were exposed to during the 9-day experiment.
Fig 2.
The mean A) malondialdehyde B) protein carbonyl C) superoxide dismutase D) total antioxidant capacity of the brain, kidney and liver in Rhabdomys dilectus (N = 5) as a function of an incubator heat stress treatment.
Error bars represent ± s.e. Significance at p<0.05.
Fig 3.
The mean A) malondialdehyde B) protein carbonyl C) superoxide dismutase D) total antioxidant capacity of the brain, kidney and liver Rhabdomys dilectus as a function of a simulated heat wave.
Control tissues N = 7 (kidney N = 6) and simulated heat wave N = 6. Error bars represent ± s.e. Significance at p<0.05.