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Central Projections of Thermoreceptors

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Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation

Abstract

Descriptions by Zotterman, Hensel and their collaborators of the functional characteristics of sensory nerve fibers from mammalian epithelial tissues that respond to temperature changes (Hensel 1973) were an essential first step in clarifying neural substrates for reactions to environmental temperature. One of these reactions is temperature sense, that is, the mammalian ability to recognize temperature and appreciate thermal changes. The information on the first-order neurons provides a basis for evaluating central neuronal activity related to thermal changes in peripheral tissues and for interpreting central processing of thermally induced signals. On the other hand, unraveling central pathways and mechanisms related to thermally responsive sense organs has had special problems.

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  1. Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7545, USA

    E. R. Perl

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  1. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham Hall, Cambridge, CB2 4AT, UK

    J. Bligh

  2. FB Humanmedizin Institut für Normale und Pathologische Physiologie, Phillips Universität, Deutschhausstraße 2, 3550, Marburg, Germany

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Perl, E.R. (1990). Central Projections of Thermoreceptors. In: Bligh, J., Voigt, K., Braun, H.A., Brück, K., Heldmaier, G. (eds) Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75076-2_9

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