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J Appl Physiol 82: 1453-1458, 1997;
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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 1453-1458, May 1997
CONTROL OF BREATHING, CIRCULATION, AND TEMPERATURE

Influence of pregnancy on the febrile response to ICV administration of PGE1 in rats studied in a thermocline

Heather L. Eliason and James E. Fewell

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Health Sciences Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1

Received 20 May 1996; accepted in final form 18 December 1996.

Eliason, Heather L., and James E. Fewell. Influence of pregnancy on the febrile response to ICV administration of PGE1 in rats studied in a thermocline. J. Appl. Physiol. 82(5): 1453-1458, 1997.---Rats near term of pregnancy have an attenuated febrile response to intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) when they are studied at an ambient temperature below their thermoneutral zone. Given that nonshivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue is impaired in rodents near term of pregnancy, it is possible that the attenuated febrile response is forced by impairment of this component of the autonomic thermoregulatory response. If this were the case, then near-term pregnant rats should develop a "normal" fever after PGE1 administration if they were studied in a thermocline where they could utilize behavioral as well as autonomic thermoregulatory effectors to increase their body core temperature (Tbc). Experiments were, therefore, carried out on 13 nonpregnant and 14 pregnant chronically instrumented rats in a thermocline (temperature gradient 10-40°C) to investigate their Tbc responses to ICV injection of PGE1. ICV injection of 0.2 µg PGE1 produced significant increases in Tbc and fever index in both nonpregnant and pregnant animals (day 19 of gestation); the increases, however, were significantly attenuated in the pregnant compared with the nonpregnant rats. Behavioral (e.g., selected ambient temperature) and autonomic (e.g., oxygen consumption) thermoregulatory effectors were activated to increase Tbc after ICV PGE1 in both groups of animals, but the duration of activation was shortened in pregnant compared with nonpregnant rats. The abbreviated thermoregulatory effector responses and the resulting attenuated febrile response to PGE1 in the pregnant rats may have resulted from a pregnancy-related activation of an endogenous antipyretic system.

autonomic thermoregulation; behavioral thermoregulation; endogenous pyrogen; exogenous pyrogen; fever; prostaglandin; intracerebroventricular

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