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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 273: R1690-R1695, 1997;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 5 1690-R1695, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Circumventricular organs and fever

Y. Takahashi, P. Smith, A. Ferguson and Q. J. Pittman
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

We have examined the roles of three circumventricular organs, the area postrema, the subfornical organ, and the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT), as possible access points for circulating pyrogens to cause fever. In conscious, unrestrained rats prepared with telemetry devices, intracerebroventricular cannulas, and intravenous catheters, body temperature was monitored after intravenously administered lipopolysaccharide and, on a different occasion, after intracerebroventricular prostaglandin E1. Lipopolysaccharide-induced fevers in sham control lesioned rats were indistinguishable from those observed in animals with lesions of the area postrema, the OVLT, or the tissue immediately adjacent to this structure (peri-OVLT). In contrast, rats with lesions of the subfornical organ displayed reduced fevers. In none of the groups of lesioned animals were prostaglandin E1 fevers reduced. Thus lesions did not interfere with central thermogenic pathways responsive to prostaglandin. Our results indicate that subfornical organ neurons respond to circulating pyrogens and through their efferent projections activate central pathways involved in fever.


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