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Hypothalamic network for thermoregulatory shivering.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  8048633     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Warming one side of a rat's preoptic area and anterior hypothalamus (POAH) suppresses shivering on both sides of the body, and the present study evaluated the extent to which signals mediating this suppression cross the midline within and below the POAH. Hind paw shivering during unilateral POAH thermal stimulation was measured for rats in which the POAH had been midsagittally transected and for rats in which one side of the hypothalamus had been coronally transected just caudal to the POAH. In midsagittally transected rats, unilateral warming on either side of the POAH suppressed shivering equally on both sides of the body. In unilaterally transected rats, POAH warming on the transected side did not affect shivering, but warming the intact side suppressed shivering equally on both sides of the body. When a unilateral transection of only the lateral part of the hypothalamus included the medial forebrain bundle, the effect was the same as that of a unilateral transection of the whole hypothalamus. These results indicate that no information controlling shivering is exchanged between the left and right POAH and that efferent signals from the POAH, descending through the medial forebrain bundle, cross the midline somewhere below the hypothalamus to innervate both sides of the body equally.
Authors:
K Kanosue; Y H Zhang; M Yanase-Fujiwara; T Hosono
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The American journal of physiology     Volume:  267     ISSN:  0002-9513     ISO Abbreviation:  Am. J. Physiol.     Publication Date:  1994 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1994-09-01     Completed Date:  1994-09-01     Revised Date:  2008-11-21    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0370511     Medline TA:  Am J Physiol     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  R275-82     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Body Temperature Regulation / physiology*
Brain Mapping
Denervation
Efferent Pathways / physiology
Hindlimb
Hot Temperature
Hypothalamus / physiology*
Hypothalamus, Anterior / physiology
Male
Preoptic Area / physiology
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Shivering / physiology*

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