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Effects of prostaglandin E(2 )on the electrical properties of thermally classified neurons in the ventromedial preoptic area of the rat hypothalamus

BACKGROUND: Physiological and morphological evidence suggests that activation of the ventromedial preoptic area of the hypothalamus (VMPO) is an essential component of an intravenous LPS-dependent fever. In response to the endogenous pyrogen prostaglandin E(2 )(PGE(2)), the majority of temperature i...

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Autores principales: Ranels, Heather J, Griffin, John D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15733324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-6-14