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J Appl Physiol 83: 837-844, 1997;
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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 83, No. 3, pp. 837-844, September 1997
CONTROL OF BREATHING, CIRCULATION, AND TEMPERATURE

Thermoregulatory control during pregnancy and lactation in rats

Heather L. Eliason and James E. Fewell

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

Received 6 December 1996; accepted in final form 22 April 1997.

Eliason, Heather L., and James E. Fewell. Thermoregulatory control during pregnancy and lactation in rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(3): 837-844, 1997.---Although the mechanisms remain unknown, maternal core temperature (Tc) decreases near term of pregnancy and is increased throughout lactation in rats. The purpose of our present experiments was to determine whether pregnancy and lactation shift the thermoneutral zone of rats and to investigate whether the changes in maternal Tc during pregnancy and lactation result from "forced" or "regulated" thermoregulatory responses. Conscious, chronically instrumented nonpregnant and pregnant and lactating rats were studied both in a thermocline (a chamber with a linear temperature gradient from 12 to 36°C) and in a metabolic chamber to determine the influence of pregnancy and lactation on selected ambient temperature as well as the thermoregulatory response to changes in ambient temperature. We found that selected ambient temperature, oxygen consumption, and thermal conductance did not change in rats studied in a thermocline as Tc decreased near term of pregnancy. There was, however, a downward shift in the thermoneutral zone of rats studied in a metabolic chamber near term of pregnancy. During lactation, selected ambient temperature decreased in rats studied in a thermocline as oxygen consumption and Tc increased. The thermoneutral zone of lactating rats was not different from that of nonpregnant animals. Thus our data provide evidence that the decrease in Tc near term of pregnancy in rats results from a regulated thermoregulatory response, whereas the increase in Tc during lactation results from a forced thermoregulatory response.

autonomic thermoregulation; behavioral thermoregulation

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