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Spinal cord thermosensitivity: An afferent phenomenon?
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- Neural Control of Homeothermy, Torpor, and Hibernation.Annual review of neuroscience · 2026Review
- Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set-point in mammals, birds, and lizards.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Prostaglandin ETemperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Review
- Brown Adipose Tissue-A Translational Perspective.Endocrine reviews · 2023Review
- Transcutaneous transmission of photobiomodulation light to the spinal canal of dog as measured from cadaver dogs using a multi-channel intra-spinal probe.Lasers in medical science · 2019Article
- Central nervous system circuits that control body temperature.Neuroscience letters · 2019Review
- Cellular populations and thermosensing mechanisms of the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2018Review
- Mammalian cold TRP channels: impact on thermoregulation and energy homeostasis.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
We review the evidence for thermoregulatory temperature sensors in the mammalian spinal cord and reach the following conclusions. 1) Spinal cord temperature contributes physiologically to temperature regulation. 2) Parallel anterolateral ascending pathways transmit signals from spinal cooling and spinal warming: they overlap with the respective axon pathways of the dorsal horn neurons that are driven by peripheral cold- and warm-sensitive afferents. 3) We hypothesize that these 'cold' and 'warm' ascending pathways transmit all extracranial thermosensory information to the brain. 4) Cutaneous cold afferents can be activated not only by cooling the skin but also by cooling sites along their axons: we consider that this is functionally insignificant
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