Citation

Johnson RH, Spalding JM. J. Physiol. 1966; 184(3): 733-740.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1966, The Physiological Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14879514

Abstract

1. Five subjects with spinal cord transections and one subject unconscious from a head injury have been studied when the deep tissue temperature (;central' temperature) was artificially lowered but normally innervated skin was kept warm, usually 34-36 degrees C.2. Shivering and/or increased metabolism was evoked when the central temperature was 34.9-37 degrees C.3. These observations are compatible with the view that there is a central receptor which can cause shivering when stimulated by a fall in central temperature.

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