Are vagal efferents involved in the fever response to intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide?

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 65-70

  Romanovsky, A A ^a   Ivanov, A I ^a   Berthoud, H R ^b   Kulchitsky, V A ^a  

^a Legacy Holladay Park Medical Center   (United States)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Endotoxins; Febrile response; Motor fibers; Parasympathetic nervous system; Rats; Selective branch vagotomy; Selective efferent rhizotomy; Truncal subdiaphragmatic vagotomy; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033971830     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4565(99)00078-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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