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  • Title: Single neuron studies and their usefulness in understanding thermoregulation.
    Author: Boulant JA.
    Journal: Yale J Biol Med; 1986; 59(2):179-88. PubMed ID: 3739374.
    Abstract:
    Electrophysiological studies of hypothalamic thermosensitive neurons have been conducted for the past 25 years. These studies have greatly improved our understanding of the neural control of thermoregulation. They have added a sense of reality to black-box models, and they have fostered the development of neuronal models having a major effect on the predictions and conclusions made in thermoregulatory studies. Neuron studies not only provide an understanding of the synaptic and cellular basis of thermosensitivity, but they also permit morphological identifications of neurons and their pathways. Neuron studies have identified sites at which central temperature information is integrated with peripheral temperature information. In addition, these experiments provide functional explanations for the types of integration observed. Neuron studies also provide explanations for the central actions of a variety of neurochemicals important in thermoregulation. Finally, neuronal specificity studies have aided in restoring the view that thermoregulation is part of a complex homeostatic system in which various regulatory systems interact with each other.
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