Abstract
Maintenance of mammalian core body temperature within a narrow range is a fundamental homeostatic process to optimize cellular and tissue function, and to improve survival in adverse thermal environments. Body temperature is maintained during a broad range of environmental and physiological challenges by central nervous system circuits that process thermal afferent inputs from the skin and the body core to control the activity of thermoeffectors. These include thermoregulatory behaviors, cutaneous vasomotion (vasoconstriction and, in humans, active vasodilation), thermogenesis (shivering and brown adipose tissue), evaporative heat loss (salivary spreading in rodents, and human sweating). This review provides an overview of the central nervous system circuits for thermoregulatory reflex regulation of thermoeffectors.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 225-232 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
| Volume | 696 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 23 2019 |
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Keywords
- Brown adipose tissue
- Cutaneous vasomotion
- Saliva secretion
- Shivering
- Sweating
- Thermoregulation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
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Central nervous system circuits that control body temperature. / Madden, Christopher (Chris); Morrison, Shaun.
In: Neuroscience Letters, Vol. 696, 23.03.2019, p. 225-232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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AU - Madden, Christopher (Chris)
AU - Morrison, Shaun
PY - 2019/3/23
Y1 - 2019/3/23
N2 - Maintenance of mammalian core body temperature within a narrow range is a fundamental homeostatic process to optimize cellular and tissue function, and to improve survival in adverse thermal environments. Body temperature is maintained during a broad range of environmental and physiological challenges by central nervous system circuits that process thermal afferent inputs from the skin and the body core to control the activity of thermoeffectors. These include thermoregulatory behaviors, cutaneous vasomotion (vasoconstriction and, in humans, active vasodilation), thermogenesis (shivering and brown adipose tissue), evaporative heat loss (salivary spreading in rodents, and human sweating). This review provides an overview of the central nervous system circuits for thermoregulatory reflex regulation of thermoeffectors.
AB - Maintenance of mammalian core body temperature within a narrow range is a fundamental homeostatic process to optimize cellular and tissue function, and to improve survival in adverse thermal environments. Body temperature is maintained during a broad range of environmental and physiological challenges by central nervous system circuits that process thermal afferent inputs from the skin and the body core to control the activity of thermoeffectors. These include thermoregulatory behaviors, cutaneous vasomotion (vasoconstriction and, in humans, active vasodilation), thermogenesis (shivering and brown adipose tissue), evaporative heat loss (salivary spreading in rodents, and human sweating). This review provides an overview of the central nervous system circuits for thermoregulatory reflex regulation of thermoeffectors.
KW - Brown adipose tissue
KW - Cutaneous vasomotion
KW - Saliva secretion
KW - Shivering
KW - Sweating
KW - Thermoregulation
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