This volume constitutes a comprehensive survey of current research into disorders of thermoregulation. The 35 reports provide access to worldwide investigations on thermoregulation and its disorders consequent to disease, adverse environments, ageing and drug administration (including drug abuse). Major topics addressed include problems related to general anaesthesia, thermoregulatory complaints in the menopause, mechanisms and management of fever and dangers associated with cold exposure. The book is designed as a source for physiologists, pharmacologists and neuroscientists who must increasingly recognize thermoregulatory changes as confounding factors in many aspects of experimental investigation. It also offers clinicians concerned with the management and prevention of disorders of temperature regulation much practical information.
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Effect of repeated exposures to cold on food and fluid intakes of rats; elevated alpha-2-adrenergic responsiveness in menopausal hot flushes - pharmacological and biochemical studies; thermoregulation and sleep in postmenopausal women; the climacteric hot flush - an update; vasopressin induced antipyresis and convulsive-like activity in the medical amygdaloid nucleus; the modulatory role of peripheral corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) in the febrile response to polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly-I:C); release of interleukin-6 and TNF during lipopolysaccharide induced fever in guinea pigs; effects of various doses of indomethacin and dexamethasone on rectal temperature and hypothalamic prostanoids in febrile rats; fever and ageing - relationship to Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis; a specific inhibitory effect of halothane on brown adipose tissue thermogenesis; hypothalamic norepinephrine and body temperature control - another look; comparison of peripheral vascular responses to hypoglycaemia and to adrenaline infusion; effect of repeated adminstration of sublethal dose of divicine on body temperature, some blood and urine constituents of rats; NMDA antagonists attenuate cocaine-induced hypothermia; influence of GABA agonists and CCK-8 on amphetamine-induced hypothermia in mice; exogenous and endogenous pyrogens - effects on cyclic AMP efflux from rat brain slices in vitro; Xin Liang Ji, a chinese therapeutic drug, inhibits endotoxin-fever in the rabbit. (Part contents)
