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6462889

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-9-6
pubmed:abstractText
Neurons in the rat's thalamus and hypothalamus abruptly change their firing rates from minimum to maximum, or vice versa, with increase in scrotal temperature of 1 degree C or less ("switching response"). The threshold temperature of the switching response was compared in pairs of neurons simultaneously recorded from the right and left thalamus or from the right thalamus and the left hypothalamus. In dynamic conditions in which scrotal skin was gradually warmed at rates of 1-7 degrees C/min, the threshold temperatures of each neuron pair differed by only 0.4 degree C or less. The threshold temperatures of static responses of each pair of neurons, which was determined with step changes in scrotal temperature, fell in a range less than 0.8 degree C. Scrotal warming produced desynchronization of cortical EEG which was monitored during unit recordings. The change in EEG occurred at about the same scrotal temperature at which the switching responses of the diencephalic neurons were elicited.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
400
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
418-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Threshold temperatures of diencephalic neurons responding to scrotal warming.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article