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The nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) is part of the thermoafferent system of the brainstem (1, 2). Thermoregulatory effects have been shown medially inside the NRM, not at all however in lateral parts of the NRM and in the gigantocellular medullary reticular formation (2). Adaptive effects to cold temperatures have been demonstrated in the NRM (3, 4). These effects are still partly maintained after complete microtranssection of the descending afferents to the NRM, suggesting that they are partly generated by descending influences from upper structures inside the brain, partly by structures of the lower brainstem. An aim of this study has been to find the structures involved in thermoadaptive effects inside the NRM.
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Hermann, D.M., Hinckel, P., Luppi, P.H., Jouvet, M. (1994). Functional Neuroanatomical Considerations on Afferent and Efferent Projections of the Nucleus Raphe Magnus. In: Zeisberger, E., Schönbaum, E., Lomax, P. (eds) Thermal Balance in Health and Disease. APS Advances in Pharmacological Sciences. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7429-8_11
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