TY - JOUR
T1 - Central nervous system circuits that control body temperature
AU - Madden, Christopher J.
AU - Morrison, Shaun
N1 - Funding Information:
Support of the authors’ research that contributed to this review came from National Institutes of Health grants R01NS091066 (S.F.M.), R01NS40987 (S.F.M.), R01DK57838 (S.F.M.), R01DK065401 (C.J.M.) and R01DK112198 (C.J.M.).
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
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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U2 - 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.11.027
DO - 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.11.027
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30586638
AN - SCOPUS:85059800829
VL - 696
SP - 225
EP - 232
JO - Neuroscience Letters
JF - Neuroscience Letters
SN - 0304-3940
ER -