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Single-unit studies on preoptic and anterior hypothalamic neurons in the capsaicindesensitized rat having deficient thermoregulation against heat showed that the proportion of warm-sensitive and cold-sensitive neurons in a total population of neurons recorded was reduced to about half of the normal.
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Hori, T. Thermosensitivity of preoptic and anterior hypothalamic neurons in the capsaicin-desensitized rat. Pflugers Arch. 389, 297–299 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584793
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