TEMPERATURE REGULATION DURING WAKEFULNESS, SLEEP, AND HIBERNATION IN MARMOTS
TEMPERATURE REGULATION DURING WAKEFULNESS, SLEEP, AND HIBERNATION IN MARMOTS
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpregu.1978.235.1.r82
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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HELLER, HC
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FLORANT, GL;TURNER, BM;HELLER, HC
The threshold hypothalamic temperature and the proportionality constant for the metabolic heat production response were investigated in 3 euthermic marmots (Marmota flaviventris) during wakefulness (W), slow-wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS), and in 4 marmots (Marmota flaviventris) during entrances into hibernation. Hypothalamic temperature (Thy) was manipulated with chronically implanted, water-perfused thermodes straddling the hypothalamus. Rate of metabolic heat production (MHP) measured as O2 consumption, ambient temperature (Ta) and Thy were continuously recorded during experiments. Arousal states were defined from recordings of the cortical EEG and the dorsal neck muscle electromyogram (EMG). The proportionality constant which describes the MHP response to a decrease in Thy (.alpha.MHP) was -1.10 W/kg per .degree.C for wakeful euthermic marmots at a Ta of 15.degree. C. During SWS, .alpha.MHP of euthermic marmots declined to -0.55 W/kg per .degree.C. These same animals showed no metabolic response to Thy as low as 34.5.degree. C during PS. Manipulations of Thy in animals entering hibernation revealed a continuously declining threshold Thy and .alpha.MHP. When .alpha.MHP was expressed as a function of threshold it had a temperature coefficient of 2.1. This relationship extrapolated to the .alpha.MHP value of SWS at a euthermic threshold Thy (37.degree. C). The central nervous regulator of body temperature is continuously operative over the entire range of body temperatures (Tb) experienced by the hibernator. The fact that values of .alpha.MHP obtained during hibernation extrapolate to euthermic SWS values rather than euthermic wakeful values lends credence to the hypothesis that hibernation is an extension of thermoregulatory adjustments which normally occur during SWS.