Temperature Regulation: Recent Physiological and Pharmacological Advances

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Effect of Peripheral Corticotrophin-Releasing Factors on Febrile Responses....Pages 1-10
Fever Induction by a Cytokine Network in Guinea Pigs: The Roles of Tumor Necrosis Factor and Interleukin-6....Pages 11-16
Cytokines in Endotoxin Tolerance....Pages 17-22
Effects of Immunomodulators and Protease Inhibitors on Fever....Pages 23-27
Endogenous Steroids Limit the Magnitude of Febrile Responses....Pages 29-34
The Role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) and Interleukin-1 Interaction in Suppression of Fever....Pages 35-39
Body Temperature Elevation Per Se Induces the Late Phase Syndrome....Pages 41-46
The Absence of Fever in Rat Malaria is Associated with Increased Turnover of 5-Hydroxytryptamine in the Brain....Pages 47-52
Prostaglandins and the Acute Phase Immune Response....Pages 53-58
Pyrogenic Immunomodulator Stimulation of a Novel Thymic Corticotrophin-Releasing Factor In Vitro ....Pages 59-64
Apparent Dissociation between Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Intrapreoptic Release of Prostaglandin E 2 and Fever in Guinea Pigs....Pages 65-70
Thermoregulatory Responses of Rabbits to Combined Heat Exposure, Pyrogen and Dehydration....Pages 71-74
Fever and the Organum Vasculosum Laminae Terminalis: Another Look....Pages 75-79
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-Induced Fos Expression in the Brains of Febrile Rats....Pages 81-85
Analysis of Body Temperature and Blood Protein in Hypothermic Syrian Hamsters and Rats....Pages 87-92
Neurophysiology of Thermoregulation: Role of Hypothalamic Neuronal Networks....Pages 93-101
Effect of 5-HT Receptor Agonists or Antagonists on Hypothalamic 5-HT Release or Colonic Temperature in Rats....Pages 103-108
Temperature Sensitivty of Rat Spinal Cord Neurons Recorded in Vitro....Pages 109-114
The Effect of Ambient Temperature on the Modulation of Thermoregulatory Mechanisms by Selective Opioid Peptides....Pages 115-120
Regulation of Body Temperature: Involvement of Opioid and Hypothalamic GABA....Pages 121-126
Bilateral Difference in Tympanic Temperatures Reflects that in Brain Temperature....Pages 127-131
Temperature Interhemispheric Brain Asymmetry as a Sign of Functional Activity....Pages 133-138
Cerebral and Related Temperatures in Normothermic Subjects....Pages 139-144
Non-Thermometric Means of Assessing Changes of Brainstem Temperature: The Question of Selective Brain Cooling in Humans....Pages 145-149
Effects of Selective α-Adrenergic Blockade on Control of Human Skin Blood Flow during Exercise....Pages 151-157
Acclimation to 3 Different Climates with the Same Wet Bulb Globe Temperature....Pages 159-164
Sensible Heat Loss after Systemic Anticholinergic Treatment....Pages 165-170
Neuropeptide-Y (NPY) Reduces Cutaneous Microcirculatory Blood Flow and Increases Total Blood Flow in the Rat Tail....Pages 171-175
Effect of Pretreatment with Delta-9-Tetrahydro-Cannabinol on the Ability of Certain Cannabimimetic Agents to Induce Hypothermia in Mice....Pages 177-182
Central Motor Command Affects the Sweating Activity during Exercise....Pages 183-187
Selective Brain Cooling in the Horse during Exercise....Pages 189-193
Skin Blood Flow during Severe Heat Stress: Regional Variations and Failure to Maintain Maximal Levels....Pages 195-200
Heat Transfer Via the Blood....Pages 201-206
Fall in Body Core Temperature during the Previous Heat Exposure Time in Rats after Subjection to Heat Loads at a Fixed Time Daily....Pages 207-211
Treatment of Immersion Hypothermia by Forced-Air Warming....Pages 213-218
Factorial Effects on Contact Cooling....Pages 219-222
Convective and Metabolic Heat in Human Fingers....Pages 223-228
From Foetus to Neonate — Implications for the Ontogeny of Thermoregulation....Pages 229-240
Effects of Several Factors on the Enlargement of Brown Adipose Tissue....Pages 241-245
Thermal Preference Behaviour Following β 3 -Agonist Stimulation....Pages 247-251
Sympathetic Tone and Noradrenaline Responsiveness of Brown Adipocytes from Rats with High Levels of Sexual Steroids....Pages 253-260
The Tail of the Rat in Temperature Regulation: Effect of Angiotensin II....Pages 261-265
Selective Vulnerability of Rat Hippocampus in Heat Stress....Pages 267-272
Development of Temperature Regulation in Precocial Chicks: Patterns in Shorebirds and Ducks....Pages 273-278
Central Venous Pressure and Cardiovascular Responses to Hyperthermia....Pages 279-283
Effects of Bright and Dim Light Intensities during Daytime upon Circadian Rhythm of Core Temperature in Man....Pages 285-289
Long Term Heat Acclimation: Acquired Peripheral Cardiovascular Adaptations and their Stability under Multifactorial Stressors....Pages 291-296
Effects of Solar Radiation and Feed Quality on Heart Rate and Heat Balance Parameters in Cattle....Pages 297-302
Cytological Changes in Brown Adipose Tissue of Lean and Obese Mice: Acclimation to Mild Cold with and without a Warm Refuge....Pages 303-308
Manipulation of Brown Adipose Tissue Development in Neonatal and Postnatal Lambs....Pages 309-314
Resting Muscle: A Source of Thermogenesis Controlled by Vasomodulators....Pages 315-320
Thyroid Status Modulates Hypothalamic Thermosensitivity, Vasopressin and Corticosteroid Secretion in Rabbits....Pages 321-326
Role of Prolactin in Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenic Activity....Pages 327-331
Biology of Adaptive Heat Production: Studies on Brown Adipose Tissue....Pages 333-344
Brown Adipose Tissue: Receptors and Recruitment....Pages 345-350
High-Energy Food Supplement, Energy Substrate Mobilization and Heat Balance in Cold-Exposed Humans....Pages 351-356
Emerging Themes in Thermoregulation and Fever....Pages 357-367
Back Matter....Pages 369-376