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Neural and Hormonal Responses to Prolonged Cold Exposure

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Abstract

The sections in this article are:

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1.1 Principal Species Discussed
1.2 Cold Exposure vs. Cold Acclimation
2 Changes in the Cold‐Acclimated State
2.1 Increased Capacity for Nonshivering Thermogenesis
2.2 Increased Basal Metabolic Rate
2.3 Hyperphagia
2.4 Hypertension
3 Neural Mechanisms
3.1 Central Neural Mechanisms
3.2 Peripheral Neural Mechanisms
4 Hormonal Mechanisms: Endocrine Function and Peripheral Responses
4.1 Thyroid Gland: Thyroxine and Triiodothyronine in Acclimation to Cold
4.2 Endocrine Pancreas
4.3 Adrenal Cortex
4.4 Pituitary
4.5 Renin‐Angiotensin System and Vasopressin
4.6 Pineal
5 Some Problems in Understanding Neural and Endocrine Control Mechanisms in the Cold‐Acclimated State
5.1 Growth and Maintenance of BAT in the Cold‐Acclimated Syrian Hamster
5.2 Maintenance of BAT in the Cold‐Acclimated Laboratory Mouse
5.3 Atrophy of BAT during Deacclimation
6 Summing Up and Future Prospects
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Jean Himms‐Hagen. Neural and Hormonal Responses to Prolonged Cold Exposure. Compr Physiol 2011, Supplement 14: Handbook of Physiology, Environmental Physiology: 439-480. First published in print 1996. doi: 10.1002/cphy.cp040120