https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:12701 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:18:25 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:12710 A) was maintained sequentially at 22°C, 12°C, 22°C and 35°C, with an accuracy of ±1°C. Neither thalamic nor pontine rabbits could maintain core temperature in cold or heat. At T 35°C, thalamic and pontine animals did not pant, indicating that telencephalic responses were necessary for the integration of mechanisms promoting respiratory heat loss. Thalamic animals, however, could inhibit ear vascular sympathetic tone in the heat, but the response was absent in pontine animals, suggesting diencephalic responses were essential for the integration of mechanisms promoting ear skin heat loss. Thus, the neural adjustments to thermal stress depend on mechanisms of integration distributed longitudinally throughout the central nervous sytem, and different components of the reflex cardiorespiratory response depend on different sites in the central nervous system for their full expression.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:16:20 AEDT ]]>