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ArticleTemperature (Austin, Tex.)2016

Attenuated cold defense responses in orexin neuron-ablated rats.

Mazher Mohammed, Masashi Yanagisawa, William Blessing, Youichirou Ootsuka

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Article in Temperature (Austin, Tex.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Activation of TRPV1 in nucleus tractus solitarius reduces brown adipose tissue thermogenesis, arterial pressure, and heart rate.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018
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  6. Orexins and the cardiovascular events of awakening.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2017
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  7. The dynamic nature of resting metabolic rate.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Mazher MohammedCentre for Neuroscience, Department of Human Physiology, Flinders University , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Masashi YanagisawaInternational Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Japan; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
William BlessingCentre for Neuroscience, Department of Human Physiology, Flinders University , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Youichirou OotsukaCentre for Neuroscience, Department of Human Physiology, Flinders University , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Flinders University · AUThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent reports of the use of transgenic mice targeting orexin neurons show that the ablation of orexin neurons in the hypothalamus causes hypothermia during cold exposure. This suggests the importance of orexin neurons for cold-induced autonomic and physiological defense responses, including brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis and vasoconstriction in thermoregulatory cutaneous vascular bed. The present study investigated whether the ablation of orexin neurons attenuated cold-elicited BAT thermogenesis and cutaneous vasoconstriction. The study took advantage of our established conscious rat experimental model of direct measurement of BAT and body temperature and tail cutaneous blood flow. The study used transgenic orexin neurons-ablated (ORX-AB) rats and wild type (WT) rats. BAT temperature and tail artery blood flow with pre-implanted probes were measured, as well as behavioral locomotor activity under conscious free-moving condition. Gradually, the ambient temperature was decreased to below 5°C. ORX-AB rats showed an attenuated cold-induced BAT thermogenesis and behavioral activity, and delayed tail vasoconstriction. An ambient temperature that initiated BAT thermogenesis and established full cutaneous vasoconstriction was 14.1 ± 1.9 °C, which was significantly lower than 20.5 ± 1.9 °C, the corresponding value in WT rats (n = 10, P < 0.01). The results from this study suggest that the integrity of orexin-synthesising neurons in thermoregulatory networks is important for full expression of the cold defense responses.

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brown adipose tissuecold defensecutaneous vasoconstrictionorexin

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PMCPMC5079225
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