The role of a central temperature receptor in shivering in man

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Abstract
Five subjects with spinal cord transections and 1 subject unconscious from a head injury have been studied when the deep tissue temperature (''central'' temperature) was artificially lowered butnormally innervated skin was kept warm, usually 34-36[degree]C. Shivering and/or increased metabolism was evoked when the central temperature was 34.9-37[degree]C. These observations are compatible with the view that there is a central receptor which can cause shivering when stimulated by a fall in central temperature.