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Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptive Phenomena in Temperature Regulation

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Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation

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Unlike engineered physical regulatory systems, organismic thermoregulation is not invariant; its properties are influenced by thermal loading itself: its duration, frequency, and intensity. Some of the so-called long-term thermoadaptive phenomena may be traced to changes in the capacity of the effector systems, the threshold, and the gain of the regulatory responses of the effector actions (Brück 1981; Brück and Zeisberger 1978, 1987). It is the changes in threshold temperatures at which regulatory responses are elicited that this review is mainly concerned with.

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  1. Physiologisches Institut, Klinikum der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Aulweg 129, D-6300, Gieβen, Germany

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  1. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham Hall, Cambridge, CB2 4AT, UK

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Brück, K. (1990). Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptive Phenomena in Temperature Regulation. In: Bligh, J., Voigt, K., Braun, H.A., Brück, K., Heldmaier, G. (eds) Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75076-2_21

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