Abstract
Abstract
This chapter presents a comparative perspective on fever-induced regulation of body temperature as an example of a single bout of reactive rheostasis. The chapter explains that most of the key molecules that form the primary physiological defense in this innate response are ancient and evolutionary conserved and are comprised of genetically coded material. It also shows that the reactive rheostatic mechanisms involved in the control of fever-induced regulation of core body temperature consist of specific genes and cellular mechanisms that act on existing homeostatic pathways. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the common pattern in which reactive rheostasis mechanisms induce slight modifications to a set point and consequently error-detector that last a relatively long, defined period.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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