title: Temperature in the spotlight of drug abuse research.
abstract: This editorial summarizes Temperature's special issue entitled "Temperature and Toxicology with a Focus on Drugs of Abuse" (2014, volume 1, issue 3), dedicated to the multiple recent discoveries related to the thermoregulatory effects of xenobiotics. Several basic and clinical studies on xenobiotic-induced hyperthermia are reported that propose novel mechanisms and treatments.
authors.affiliation: UCIBIO-REQUIMTE; Toxicology Laboratory; Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Pharmacy; University of Porto , Portugal.
authors.forename: Félix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Neuroscience Branch; National Institute on Drug Abuse - Intramural Research Program; NIH ; Baltimore, MD USA.
authors.forename: Eugene A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kiyatkin
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine; Pharmacology and Toxicology; Indiana University School of Medicine ; Indianapolis, IN USA.
authors.forename: Daniel E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rusyniak
authors.affiliation: Systemic Inflammation Laboratory (FeverLab); Trauma Research; St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center ; Phoenix, AZ USA.
authors.forename: Andrej A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Romanovsky
keywords: 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine; MDMA; amphetamines; drug-induced hyperthermia; nicotine; psychostimulants; thermoregulation; toxic hypothermia; toxicology; xenobiotics