Thermoregulation, blood flow

However, it needs to be recognized that thermoregulation in skin adds an additional complexity that needs to be accounted for in any model (Riviere and Williams, 1992). Skin blood flow consists of skin blood flow through exchanging capil-... 

Charkoudian, N., Skin blood flow in adult human thermoregulation how it works, when it does not and why, Mayo Clinic Proc., 2003, 78, 603-611. 

In addition to its barrier fnnction, the skin has a number of fimctions, including sensory perception, immnne activities, metabolism, secretory activities, and thermoregulation. The involvement of dermal microcirculation in body temperature control accounts for much of the observed blood vessel orientation, humoral and nervous control, and large variations in flow capacity (Charkoudian, 2003). 

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