A thermosensory pathway mediating heat-defense responses.

• NAKAMURA K

抄録

Afferent neural transmission of temperature sensation from skin thermoreceptors to the central thermoregulatory system is important for the defense of body temperature against environmental thermal challenges. Here, we report a thermosensory pathway that triggers physiological heat-defense responses to elevated environmental temperature. Using in vivo electrophysiological and anatomical approaches in the rat, we found that neurons in the dorsal part of the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBd) glutamatergically transmit cutaneous warm signals from spinal somatosensory neurons directly to the thermoregulatory command center, the preoptic area (POA). Intriguingly, these LPBd neurons are located adjacent to another group of neurons that mediate cutaneous cool signaling to the POA. Functional experiments revealed that this LPBd-POA warm sensory pathway is required to elicit autonomic heat-defense responses, such as cutaneous vasodilation, to skin-warming challenges. These findings provide a fundamental framework for understanding the neural circuitry maintaining thermal homeostasis, which is critical to survive severe environmental temperatures.

収録刊行物

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (19), 8848-8853, 2010-05-11

  The National Academy of Sciences

キーワード

• autonomic nervous system
• feedforward
• somatosensory
• sympathetic
• thermoregulation

詳細情報

• CRID: 1574231876219427456
• NII論文ID: 80021052162
• NII書誌ID: AA10808769
• ISSN: 00278424
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/123440
• 本文言語コード: en
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