The vagus nerve in the thermoregulatory response to systemic inflammation

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 1 42-1, 1997, Pages

  Romanovsky, Andrej A ^a   Simons, Christopher T ^a   Székely, Miklós ^a,b,c   Kulchitsky, Vladimir A ^a,b,c  

^a LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Endotoxin shock; Lipopolysaccharides; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTIC SHOCK; THERMOREGULATION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030825335     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.1.r407     Document Type: Article

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