Thermoregulation.
Thermoregulation.
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体温调节。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpregu.00571.2002
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2003
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DiBona,GeraldF
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DiBona,GeraldF
thermoregulation is a subject that clearly reflects the regulatory, integrative, and comparative portions of the journal's title. Body temperature is closely regulated via the integration of a number of mechanisms whose study has been greatly assisted by exploitation of comparative physiology. Ground squirrels, be they golden mantled (8, 15, 20), thirteen lined (2), or Arctic (4, 18), have all been found to be suitable subjects for the study of the biochemical, metabolic, and immunological aspects of temperature regulation during sleep, wakefulness, arousal, and torpor. Studies of temperature regulation and energy turnover have also been conducted during hibernation in the gray mouse lemur (14), little brown bat (7), and Alpine marmot (12).The complex relationship between body temperature regulation, febrigenic signaling, and metabolic responses to fasting has been examined in the fatty Zucker rat, which has a mutation in the leptin receptor gene and expresses a dysfunctional leptin receptor. Fatty Zucker rats have a body core temperature (T b) that is below that of lean Zucker rats. One study (9) examined whether this was due to a result of deficits in thermoregulation or a downward resetting of the set point for T b. Fatty Zucker rats had lower T b and oxygen consumption than lean Zucker rats. In addition, fatty Zucker rats chose to occupy a cooler ambient temperature (T a) in a thermal gradient (T a: 15–35 C) than lean Zucker rats. This indicates a lower set point for T b in the fatty Zucker rats as they refused the option to select a warmer T a that might allow them to counteract any thermoregulatory deficiency that leads to a low T b.