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Rimbach R, Blanc S, Zahariev A, Robin JP, Pillay N, Schradin C. Fat content of striped mice decreases during the breeding season but not during the food-restricted dry season. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 222:jeb.208504. [PMID: 31727761 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.208504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Individuals that are capable of accumulating appropriate fat stores are assumed to have selective advantages when food becomes scarce. Similarly to species from temperate zones, some species inhabiting arid areas accumulate fat stores prior to periods of food limitation. Yet, we have little knowledge concerning seasonal variation in body composition and the relationship between fat store size and disappearance risk in species from arid habitats. Using the water dilution method, we examined the body composition of African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) living in a seasonal habitat with a long food-restricted dry season. We tested for seasonal changes in body composition (N=159 measurements of 113 individuals) and whether dry season survival was related to fat mass (N=66 individuals). Fat stores were similar in size at the onset and the end of the dry season, but surprisingly smaller at the onset of the moist breeding season. Fat stores showed a negative relationship with food availability. Individual variation in fat stores was not associated with disappearance risk, but there was a positive association of disappearance risk with body mass. Increased disappearance risk of heavy individuals suggests elevated dispersal rates in competitive individuals. This study suggests that non-breeding philopatric striped mice do not accumulate large fat stores prior to the food-limited dry season but that they might mobilize fat stores at the onset of the breeding season to satisfy the energetic demands of reproduction and/or to decrease costs associated with larger fat stores, such as increased predation risk.
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- Rebecca Rimbach
- School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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McKinley MJ, Martelli D, Pennington GL, Trevaks D, McAllen RM. Integrating Competing Demands of Osmoregulatory and Thermoregulatory Homeostasis. Physiology (Bethesda) 2019; 33:170-181. [PMID: 29616878 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00037.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mammals are characterized by a stable core body temperature. When maintenance of core temperature is challenged by ambient or internal heat loads, mammals increase blood flow to the skin, sweat and/or pant, or salivate. These thermoregulatory responses enable evaporative cooling at moist surfaces to dissipate body heat. If water losses incurred during evaporative cooling are not replaced, body fluid homeostasis is challenged. This article reviews the way mammals balance thermoregulation and osmoregulation.
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- Michael J McKinley
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia.,Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia.,University of Bologna, Bologna , Italy
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Parkville , Australia
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Mitchell D, Snelling EP, Hetem RS, Maloney SK, Strauss WM, Fuller A. Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: Predicting responses of mammals to climate change. J Anim Ecol 2018; 87:956-973. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Duncan Mitchell
- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
- School of Human Sciences; University of Western Australia; Crawley WA Australia
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- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
- School of Human Sciences; University of Western Australia; Crawley WA Australia
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- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
- Department of Environmental Science; University of South Africa; Johannesburg South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group; School of Physiology; Faculty of Health Sciences; University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
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Strauss WM, Hetem RS, Mitchell D, Maloney SK, O'Brien HD, Meyer LCR, Fuller A. Body water conservation through selective brain cooling by the carotid rete: a physiological feature for surviving climate change? CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 5:cow078. [PMID: 29383253 PMCID: PMC5778374 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cow078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Revised: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Some mammals have the ability to lower their hypothalamic temperature below that of carotid arterial blood temperature, a process termed selective brain cooling. Although the requisite anatomical structure that facilitates this physiological process, the carotid rete, is present in members of the Cetartiodactyla, Felidae and Canidae, the carotid rete is particularly well developed in the artiodactyls, e.g. antelopes, cattle, sheep and goats. First described in the domestic cat, the seemingly obvious function initially attributed to selective brain cooling was that of protecting the brain from thermal damage. However, hyperthermia is not a prerequisite for selective brain cooling, and selective brain cooling can be exhibited at all times of the day, even when carotid arterial blood temperature is relatively low. More recently, it has been shown that selective brain cooling functions primarily as a water-conservation mechanism, allowing artiodactyls to save more than half of their daily water requirements. Here, we argue that the evolutionary success of the artiodactyls may, in part, be attributed to the evolution of the carotid rete and the resulting ability to conserve body water during past environmental conditions, and we suggest that this group of mammals may therefore have a selective advantage in the hotter and drier conditions associated with current anthropogenic climate change. A better understanding of how selective brain cooling provides physiological plasticity to mammals in changing environments will improve our ability to predict their responses and to implement appropriate conservation measures.
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- W. Maartin Strauss
- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- Department of Environmental Science, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- School of Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- School of Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma, OK 74107, USA
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0110, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
- Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0110, South Africa
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Blessing W, McAllen R, McKinley M. Control of the Cutaneous Circulation by the Central Nervous System. Compr Physiol 2016; 6:1161-97. [PMID: 27347889 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c150034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The central nervous system (CNS), via its control of sympathetic outflow, regulates blood flow to the acral cutaneous beds (containing arteriovenous anastomoses) as part of the homeostatic thermoregulatory process, as part of the febrile response, and as part of cognitive-emotional processes associated with purposeful interactions with the external environment, including those initiated by salient or threatening events (we go pale with fright). Inputs to the CNS for the thermoregulatory process include cutaneous sensory neurons, and neurons in the preoptic area sensitive to the temperature of the blood in the internal carotid artery. Inputs for cognitive-emotional control from the exteroceptive sense organs (touch, vision, sound, smell, etc.) are integrated in forebrain centers including the amygdala. Psychoactive drugs have major effects on the acral cutaneous circulation. Interoceptors, chemoreceptors more than baroreceptors, also influence cutaneous sympathetic outflow. A major advance has been the discovery of a lower brainstem control center in the rostral medullary raphé, regulating outflow to both brown adipose tissue (BAT) and to the acral cutaneous beds. Neurons in the medullary raphé, via their descending axonal projections, increase the discharge of spinal sympathetic preganglionic neurons controlling the cutaneous vasculature, utilizing glutamate, and serotonin as neurotransmitters. Present evidence suggests that both thermoregulatory and cognitive-emotional control of the cutaneous beds from preoptic, hypothalamic, and forebrain centers is channeled via the medullary raphé. Future studies will no doubt further unravel the details of neurotransmitter pathways connecting these rostral control centers with the medullary raphé, and those operative within the raphé itself. © 2016 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 6:1161-1197, 2016.
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- William Blessing
- Human Physiology, Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University, Adelaide, S.A., Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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Central neural circuits orchestrate the behavioral and autonomic repertoire that maintains body temperature during environmental temperature challenges and alters body temperature during the inflammatory response and behavioral states and in response to declining energy homeostasis. This review summarizes the central nervous system circuit mechanisms controlling the principal thermoeffectors for body temperature regulation: cutaneous vasoconstriction regulating heat loss and shivering and brown adipose tissue for thermogenesis. The activation of these thermoeffectors is regulated by parallel but distinct efferent pathways within the central nervous system that share a common peripheral thermal sensory input. The model for the neural circuit mechanism underlying central thermoregulatory control provides a useful platform for further understanding of the functional organization of central thermoregulation, for elucidating the hypothalamic circuitry and neurotransmitters involved in body temperature regulation, and for the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches to modulating body temperature and energy homeostasis.
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- Shaun F Morrison
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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McKinley MJ, Yao ST, Uschakov A, McAllen RM, Rundgren M, Martelli D. The median preoptic nucleus: front and centre for the regulation of body fluid, sodium, temperature, sleep and cardiovascular homeostasis. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2015; 214:8-32. [PMID: 25753944 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Revised: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Located in the midline anterior wall of the third cerebral ventricle (i.e. the lamina terminalis), the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) receives a unique set of afferent neural inputs from fore-, mid- and hindbrain. These afferent connections enable it to receive neural signals related to several important aspects of homeostasis. Included in these afferent projections are (i) neural inputs from two adjacent circumventricular organs, the subfornical organ and organum vasculosum laminae terminalis, that respond to hypertonicity, circulating angiotensin II or other humoural factors, (ii) signals from cutaneous warm and cold receptors that are relayed to MnPO, respectively, via different subnuclei in the lateral parabrachial nucleus and (iii) input from the medulla associated with baroreceptor and vagal afferents. These afferent signals reach appropriate neurones within the MnPO that enable relevant neural outputs, both excitatory and inhibitory, to be activated or inhibited. The efferent neural pathways that proceed from the MnPO terminate on (i) neuroendocrine cells in the hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei to regulate vasopressin release, while polysynaptic pathways from MnPO to cortical sites may drive thirst and water intake, (ii) thermoregulatory pathways to the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus and medullary raphé to regulate shivering, brown adipose tissue and skin vasoconstriction, (iii) parvocellular neurones in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus that drive autonomic pathways influencing cardiovascular function. As well, (iv) other efferent pathways from the MnPO to sites in the ventrolateral pre-optic nucleus, perifornical region of the lateral hypothalamic area and midbrain influence sleep mechanisms.
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- M. J. McKinley
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
- Department of Physiology; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology; Karolinska Institutet; Stockholm Sweden
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Vic. Australia
- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Science; University of Bologna; Bologna Italy
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Strauss WM, Hetem RS, Mitchell D, Maloney SK, Meyer LCR, Fuller A. Selective brain cooling reduces water turnover in dehydrated sheep. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0115514. [PMID: 25675092 PMCID: PMC4326457 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In artiodactyls, arterial blood destined for the brain can be cooled through counter-current heat exchange within the cavernous sinus via a process called selective brain cooling. We test the hypothesis that selective brain cooling, which results in lowered hypothalamic temperature, contributes to water conservation in sheep. Nine Dorper sheep, instrumented to provide measurements of carotid blood and brain temperature, were dosed with deuterium oxide (D2O), exposed to heat for 8 days (40 ◦C for 6-h per day) and deprived of water for the last five days (days 3 to 8). Plasma osmolality increased and the body water fraction decreased over the five days of water deprivation, with the sheep losing 16.7% of their body mass. Following water deprivation, both the mean 24h carotid blood temperature and the mean 24h brain temperature increased, but carotid blood temperature increased more than did brain temperature resulting in increased selective brain cooling. There was considerable inter-individual variation in the degree to which individual sheep used selective brain cooling. In general, sheep spent more time using selective brain cooling, and it was of greater magnitude, when dehydrated compared to when they were euhydrated. We found a significant positive correlation between selective brain cooling magnitude and osmolality (an index of hydration state). Both the magnitude of selective brain cooling and the proportion of time that sheep spent selective brain cooling were negatively correlated with water turnover. Sheep that used selective brain cooling more frequently, and with greater magnitude, lost less water than did conspecifics using selective brain cooling less efficiently. Our results show that a 50 kg sheep can save 2.6L of water per day (~60% of daily water intake) when it employs selective brain cooling for 50% of the day during heat exposure. We conclude that selective brain cooling has a water conservation function in artiodactyls.
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- W. Maartin Strauss
- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
- * E-mail:
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- School of Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Scarpellini CDS, Bícego KC, Tattersall GJ. Thermoregulatory consequences of salt loading in the lizard, Pogona vitticeps. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:1166-74. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.116723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Previous research has demonstrated that dehydration increases the threshold temperature for panting and decreases the thermal preference of lizards. Conversely, it is unknown whether thermoregulatory responses like shuttling and gaping are similarly influenced. Shuttling, as an active behavioural response, is considered one of the most effective thermoregulatory behaviours, while gaping has been proposed to be involved in preventing brain over-heating in lizards. In this study we examined the effect of salt loading, a proxy for increased plasma osmolality, on shuttling and gaping in Pogona vitticeps. Then, we determined the upper and lower escape ambient temperatures (UETa and LETa), the percentage of time spent gaping, the metabolic rate (V̇O2), the evaporative water loss (EWL) during gaping and non-gaping intervals and the evaporative effectiveness (EWL/V̇O2) of gaping. All experiments were performed under isotonic (154 mM) and hypertonic saline injections (625, 1250 or 2500 mM). Only the highest concentration of hypertonic saline altered the UETa and LETa, but this effect appeared to be the result of diminishing the animal's propensity to move, instead of any direct reduction in thermoregulatory set-points. Nevertheless, the percentage of time spent gaping was proportionally reduced according to the saline concentration; V̇O2 was also decreased after salt-loading. Thermographic images revealed lower head than body surface temperatures during gaping; however this difference was inhibited after salt loading. Our data suggest that EWL/V̇O2 is raised during gaping, possibly contributing to an increase in heat transfer away from the lizard, and playing a role in head or brain cooling.
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- Carolina da Silveira Scarpellini
- Department of Animal Morphology and Physiology, College of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, SP, 14884-900, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Comparative Physiology (INCT- Fisiologia Comparada). Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S3A1, Canada
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- Department of Animal Morphology and Physiology, College of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, SP, 14884-900, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Comparative Physiology (INCT- Fisiologia Comparada). Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Comparative Physiology (INCT- Fisiologia Comparada). Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S3A1, Canada
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Bekele T, Olsson K, Olsson U, Dahlborn K. Physiological and behavioral responses to different watering intervals in lactating camels (Camelus dromedarius). Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2013; 305:R639-46. [PMID: 23842680 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00015.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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During drought periods camels are watered at long intervals, but effects on body fluid homeostasis of lactating camels are not known. It was hypothesized that camels store water after drinking and minimize water losses by diurnal variation in body temperature, changes in behavior, and release of vasopressin. The aim was to find a sustainable watering interval for lactating camels. Seven lactating camels were studied in a cross-over trial in which they were watered once daily (W1), every fourth day (W4), every eighth day (W8), or after 16 days (W16) with a 5-day interval between treatments. When offered water every fourth or eighth days, the camels drank sufficient amounts to cover their needs for subsequent days, but after 16 days of dehydration they did not drink enough to compensate the body weight loss. Rectal temperature fell at night and the camels searched shade during daytime minimizing evaporative fluid losses. Plasma osmolality and sodium concentration were elevated after 4 days of water deprivation and plasma protein and vasopressin concentrations after 8 days. Milk production decreased during the last week of W16. Plasma aldosterone concentration was elevated upon rehydration after W16, indicating sodium deficiency. In conclusion, lactating camels stored water after drinking and reduced water losses by staying in shade, keeping body temperature low, and releasing plasma vasopressin. However, serious dehydration was observed during W8, and after 16 days of water deprivation recovery took a long time. A watering interval between 4 and 7 days seems advisable under similar environmental conditions.
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Martelli D, Luppi M, Cerri M, Tupone D, Perez E, Zamboni G, Amici R. Waking and sleeping following water deprivation in the rat. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46116. [PMID: 23029406 PMCID: PMC3454381 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Wake-sleep (W-S) states are affected by thermoregulation. In particular, REM sleep (REMS) is reduced in homeotherms under a thermal load, due to an impairment of hypothalamic regulation of body temperature. The aim of this work was to assess whether osmoregulation, which is regulated at a hypothalamic level, but, unlike thermoregulation, is maintained across the different W-S states, could influence W-S occurrence. Sprague-Dawley rats, kept at an ambient temperature of 24°C and under a 12 h∶12 h light-dark cycle, were exposed to a prolonged osmotic challenge of three days of water deprivation (WD) and two days of recovery in which free access to water was restored. Two sets of parameters were determined in order to assess: i) the maintenance of osmotic homeostasis (water and food consumption; changes in body weight and fluid composition); ii) the effects of the osmotic challenge on behavioral states (hypothalamic temperature (Thy), motor activity, and W-S states). The first set of parameters changed in WD as expected and control levels were restored on the second day of recovery, with the exception of urinary Ca++ that almost disappeared in WD, and increased to a high level in recovery. As far as the second set is concerned, WD was characterized by the maintenance of the daily oscillation of Thy and by a decrease in activity during the dark periods. Changes in W-S states were small and mainly confined to the dark period: i) REMS slightly decreased at the end of WD and increased in recovery; ii) non-REM sleep (NREMS) increased in both WD and recovery, but EEG delta power, a sign of NREMS intensity, decreased in WD and increased in recovery. Our data suggest that osmoregulation interferes with the regulation of W-S states to a much lesser extent than thermoregulation.
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- Davide Martelli
- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Systems Neurophysiology Division, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Human and General Physiology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Takamata A. Modification of thermoregulatory response to heat stress by body fluid regulation. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPORTS MEDICINE 2012. [DOI: 10.7600/jpfsm.1.479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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McKinley MJ, Weissenborn F, Mathai ML. Drinking-induced thermoregulatory panting in rehydrated sheep: influences of oropharyngeal/esophageal signals, core temperature, and thirst satiety. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 296:R1881-8. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90890.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Dehydrated mammals conserve body water by reducing thermoregulatory evaporative cooling responses e.g., panting and sweating. Increased core temperature (Tc) may result. Following rehydration and correction of fluid deficits, panting and sweating commence. We investigated the role of oropharyngeal/esophageal, postabsorptive and thermal signals in the panting response, and reduced Tc that occurs when unshorn sheep drink water following water deprivation for 2 days (ambient temperature 20°C). Ingestion of water (at body temperature) resulted in increased respiratory rate (panting) and reduced Tc within 4 min that persisted for at least 90 min. Initially, a similar panting response and reduced Tc occurred following rehydration by drinking isotonic saline solution, but panting was not sustained after 20 min, and Tc began to rise again. Rehydration by intraruminal administration of water, without any drinking, resulted in delayed panting and fall in Tc. Intraruminal infusion of saline was ineffective. Rehydration by drinking cool water (20°C) resulted in a rapid fall in Tc without increased panting. Shorn sheep had lower basal Tc that did not increase during 2 days of water deprivation, and they did not pant on rehydration by drinking water. Our results indicate that signals from the oropharyngeal and/or esophageal region associated with the act of drinking play a crucial role in the initial 20–30 min of the panting response to rehydration. Postabsorptive factors most likely reduced plasma tonicity and cause continued panting and further reduction in Tc. Tc also influences rehydration-induced panting. It occurs only if sheep incur a heat load during bodily dehydration.
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