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In two conscious goats with chronically implanted spinal thermodes, fifty-six experiments were carried out at two environmental conditions of + 5 °C DB and 30 °C DB. The temperature of the spinal cord was altered by perfusing the thermodes with water whose temperature, as measured at the inlet of the thermodes, varied between 30 °C and 43 °C. Heat production, respiratory evaporative heat loss, rectal and oesophageal temperatures were measured. At the lower air temperature, spinal cord cooling resulted in an elevation of rectal temperature, while spinal cord heating caused a fall in rectal temperature. At the higher air temperature, spinal cord cooling did not result in an increase of rectal temperature. As in the lower air temperature, spinal cord heating caused a fall hi rectal temperature. The experiments suggest that the generation of spinal warm signals is independent of air temperature between +5 °C and 30 °C, while spinal cold signals are not generated in the absence of skin cold signals.
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Jessen, C., Clough, D.P. Assessment of spinal temperature sensitivity in conscious goats by feedback signals. J. Comp. Physiol. 87, 75–88 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00699297
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