AI Article Synopsis
- Endotherms, or warm-blooded animals, need to maintain their body temperature by warming up in cold environments and cooling down in hot ones.
- Researchers have discovered a neural pathway that can reverse this typical process, allowing the body to cool down in cold temperatures and heat up in warm conditions.
- This unusual regulatory mechanism is referred to as thermoregulatory inversion, highlighting new insights into how these animals adapt to different thermal challenges.
Article Abstract
Body temperature regulation in endotherms requires warming the body when ambient temperatures are low and cooling the body when they are high. Now, neural circuitry that can achieve the opposite has been identified - a phenomenon called thermoregulatory inversion.
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