Electrical stimulation of the lower midbrain around retrorubral field decreases temperatures of brown fat and rectum in anesthetized Wistar rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 129-132

  Hashimoto, Masaaki ^a   Arita, Jun ^a   Shibata, Masaaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b YAMANASHI INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body temperature regulation; Brown adipose tissue; Electrical stimulation; Lower midbrain; Metabolic heat production; Procaine; Tonic inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE LOCUS; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUM MUCOSA; THERMOGENESIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROINJECTIONS; PROCAINE; RATS; RECTUM; RED NUCLEUS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032502587     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00206-7     Document Type: Article

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