Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2013
Human temperature regulation when given the opportunity to behave.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Practical Cooling Strategies During Continuous Exercise in Hot Environments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of Swimming at Different Water Temperatures on Muscle and Adipose Tissue Adaptation in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.International journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Preserved Thermoregulation in Huntington's Disease: Insights from an Observational Case-Control Study.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Observational
- Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set-point in mammals, birds, and lizards.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The effect of heat mitigation strategies on thermoregulation and productivity during simulated occupational work in the heat in physically active young men.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Autonomic thermoregulatory responses and subjective thermal perceptions upon the initiation of thermal behavior among resting humans in hot and humid environment.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2022Article
- The influence of environmental and core temperature on cyclooxygenase and PGE2 in healthy humans.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Central Role of Hypothermia and Hyperactivity in Anorexia Nervosa: A Hypothesis.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Individualized analysis of skin thermosensory thresholds and sensitivity in heat-sensitive people with multiple sclerosis.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2021Article
- Methods for improving thermal tolerance in military personnel prior to deployment.Military Medical Research · 2020Review
- Anchoring biases affect repeated scores of thermal, moisture, tactile and comfort sensations in transient conditions.International journal of biometeorology · 2018Article
- Behavioral thermoregulation in older adults with cardiovascular co-morbidities.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2018Article
- Defining the determinants of endurance running performance in the heat.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2017Article
- A Valentine's Day bouquet for Temperature readers: pleasing with prizes, searching for the right words, and keeping things mysterious.Temperature (Austin, Tex.)Article
- Hemodynamic responses upon the initiation of thermoregulatory behavior in young healthy adults.Temperature (Austin, Tex.)Article
- Head temperature modulates thermal behavior in the cold in humans.Temperature (Austin, Tex.)Article
- The human thermoneutral and thermal comfort zones: Thermal comfort in your own skin blood flow.Temperature (Austin, Tex.)Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to test the primary hypotheses that human thermoregulatory behavior is: (1) initiated before changes in rectal or esophageal temperatures; and (2) accompanied by indiscernible differences in sweating or shivering. This was achieved by placing nine, healthy, males in a situation where they were free to move between a cold (~8 °C) and a hot (~46 °C) environment. Upon behaving [i.e., move from cold to hot (C→H) or from hot to cold (H→C)], skin, rectal, and esophageal temperatures, indices of cutaneous vasomotor tone, metabolism and evaporation, and local and whole-body thermal discomfort were recorded. Rectal temperatures were similar at H→C (37.1 ± 0.2 °C) and C→H (37.1 ± 0.2 °C); yet esophageal temperatures were higher at C→H (36.9 ± 0.2 vs. 36.8 ± 0.2 °C). Skin temperature (C→H, 28.4 ± 0.9 vs. H→C, 35.0 ± 0.6 °C) and vasomotor tone were drastically different upon the decision to behave. Metabolic heat production was lower at H→C (79 ± 10 W/m(2)) than at C→H (101 ± 20 W/m(2)), yet there were no statistical differences in evaporative heat loss (C→H, 23 ± 33 W/m(2) vs. H→C, 52 ± 36 W/m(2)). Whole-body thermal discomfort was similar at C→H and H→C, yet there were inter-segmental differences. These findings indicate that skin temperature, not core temperature, plays a signaling role in the decision to behaviorally thermoregulate. However, this behavior does not occur in the complete absence of autonomic thermoregulatory responses.
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