Shivering suppression

Yin JY, Ma ZY, Selliah N, Shivers DK, Cron RQ, Finkel TH (2006) Effective gene suppression using small interfering RNA in hard-to-transfect human T cells. J Immunol Meth 312 1-11... 

The tt2 agonists can produce profuse sweating, cause mydriasis (Kamerling et al 1988) and decrease the hematocrit (Wood et al 1992) in horses. They also decrease rectal temperature and suppress shivering in foals (Robertson et al 1990). 

W axwan When you see the abnormal expression of the type 2 channel along the hypomyelinated axons in shiverer, is the type 2 channel one that has never been along those axons, or are you seeing the failure to suppress a channel that is present earlier in development ... 

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