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J Appl Physiol 71: 2107-2113, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 6 2107-2113, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Temperature regulation during acute heat loads in rats after short-term heat exposure

O. Shido, S. Sakurada, M. Tanabe and T. Nagasaka
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan.

Eleven rats were kept at an ambient temperature of 33.5 degrees C (HC) for 4-5 consecutive days, 9 additional rats were subjected to 33.5 degrees C for approximately 5 h daily (HI) for the same period, and 12 controls (Cn) were kept at 24 degrees C. After the exposure, the rats were placed in a direct calorimeter, where the wall temperature was set at 24 degrees C, and subjected to direct internal heating (6.2 W.kg-1, 30 min) through an intraperitoneal electric heater. After the first heat load and when thermal equilibrium had been attained again, the rats were subjected to indirect external warming by raising the jacket water temperature surrounding the calorimeter from 24.0 to 38.8 degrees C in 90 min. Hypothalamic (Thy) and colonic temperatures (Tco), evaporative and nonevaporative heat loss, and metabolic heat production (M) before the acute heat loads did not differ among the groups. During heat loads, the latent times for the onsets of the rises in tail skin temperature and evaporation were significantly longer, and Thy and Tco at the start of increases in heat losses tended to be higher, in the HC than in the Cn. M significantly decreased in all groups, but the magnitude and duration of reduction in M were significantly greater in the HC than in the Cn. There were no differences between the thermoregulatory responses to heat loads of the HI and Cn. These results suggest that in HC the threshold core temperature for heat loss response and the upper critical temperature have already shifted to a higher level and that HC respond to heat stress more strongly with the reduction of M than Cn. Short-term intermittent heat exposure had little effect on the thermoregulatory mechanisms in rats.


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