title: Stress prompts brown fat into combustion.
abstract: Activation of dorsomedial hypothalamic-rostral medullary raphe neural signaling promotes brown fat thermogenesis, leading to elevated body temperature. In this issue, Kataoka et al. (2014) establish an important role for this brain-brown fat thermogenic action in psychological stress-induced hyperthermia in rats, implying a potential mechanism behind human psychogenic fever.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: sbi@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bi
mesh_terms: D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D011903:Raphe Nuclei / Q000378:metabolism*; D013315:Stress, Psychological
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