Thermoregulatory control of sympathetic fibres supplying the rat's tail

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 543, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 849-858

  Owens, N C ^a   Ootsuka, Y ^a   Kanosue, K ^b   McAllen, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD FLOW; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REVIEW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPIKE WAVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TAIL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; WARMING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORE COOLING; SKIN COOLING;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HEAT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TAIL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0037106517     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.023770     Document Type: Review

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