Selected temperature correlates with intensity of fewer in rats

Journal/Book: Physiol Behav. 1997; 61: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England OX5 1GB. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 659-660.

Abstract: Fever is considered due to an elevation of the setpoint of body temperature. The temperature is regulated at a higher lever and the higher temperature is established by activation of the heat-seeking thermoeffectors. However, it is surprising that, for this widely accepted hypothesis, there is little experimental evidence of the setpoint shifting to a higher level. The present study shows, for the first time, a significant correlation between the magnitude of the temperature rise in fever and the ambient temperature selected by rats in a thermal gradient.

Note: Article Briese E, Apartado 109, Merida, VENEZUELA

Keyword(s): fever; thermostat; setpoint temperature; behavioral thermoregulatory responses; FEVER

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