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Hypothalamus and thermoregulatlon. Tetsuro HORI 1 1Department of Physiology, Saga Medical School pp.504-519
Published Date 1987/6/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431905902
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Thermoregulation is unique in its diversity of responses, which include a wide variety of auto-nomic and behavioral responses. The thermore-gulatory system itself has no specific effector organs, and therefore thermoregulatory responses arc more or less under the control of other inte-grative systems. This indicates that the system requries a highly organized and complicated integration in the CNS for operation of thermo-regulatory responses and for the coordination with other homeostatic systems. The preoptic and anter-ior hypothalamus (PO/AH) has long been pro-posed as the most important control center of thermoregulation, based on the numerous results of ablation, stimulation and single neuron studies. Recent studies indicate that thermosensitive and thermoregulatory structures exist in the extraPO/ AH area, such as midbrain, pons, medulla and spinal cord. It is now apparent that there is a hierarchy of neural integration and control for each thermoregulatory response. The importance of the PO/AH may lie in the fact that it is more thermosensitive than other structures and has abundant neural and humoral inputs and also outputs, thereby producing divergent types of effector responses adaptive to the situations where the organisms are placed. The PO/AH not only receives local and peripheral thermal informations which have been integrated at each level of extra PO/AH thermosensitive structures but also exert some tonic influence on the lower structures. In addition, the PO/AH receives non-thermal infor-mations and has mutual neural connections with the limbic system and the association cortex. Thus, the PO/AH plays a central role in this hierarchically organized system.


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