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What roles does the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis play in fever in rabbits?

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Experiments were designed to clarify the role of the brain's organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT) in the development of fever in rabbits. Rectal and ear skin temperatures were recorded in conscious animals in which the OVLT had been electrolytically destroyed or in which the preoptic anterior hypothalamus (PO/AH) had been transected bilaterally. When the OVLT had been ablated the febrile responses to intravenous injection of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) or tumour necrosis factor alpha were significantly attenuated, while those to intracerebroventricular injection of IL-1β were not affected. Fever induced by intracerebroventricular injection of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) was prolonged significantly. The febrile responses to intravenous injection of IL-1β and to intracerebroventricular injection of PGE2 were attenuated when the transection was located caudally to the anterior wall of the third ventricle and extended laterally more than about 3 mm in the ventricular wall. The results show that the OVLT region is a site through which signals to increase body temperature are transferred from the blood to the brain in rabbits.

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  1. Department of Physiology, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Nakakoma, 409-38, Yamanashi, Japan

    Masaaki Hashimoto & Masami Iriki

  2. Max-Planck-Institut, Parkstrasse l, D-61231, Bad Nauheim, Germany

    Masaaki Hashimoto

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Nakakoma, 409-38, Yamanashi, Japan

    Takehiko Ueno

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Hashimoto, M., Ueno, T. & Iriki, M. What roles does the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis play in fever in rabbits?. Pflugers Arch. 429, 50–57 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02584029

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