Warm-sensitive neurons

The POA also contains cold-sensitive neurons (CSNs), cells activated by local cooling and inhibited by local warming. Most CSNs are wake-active thus, like arousal-related neurons in PLH, PH, DRN and basal forebrain, they exhibit... 

Ten years ago, it was observed in a model of 5-min global ischemia in gerbils that the expected severe hippocampal neuronal loss could be markedly attenuated by prolonging the period of halothane anesthesia, which blunted the mild postischemic hyperthermia (approx 1,5°C) that would otherwise occur (55). This effect was not specific to halothane but rather could be duplicated by warming the head by a similar amount in its absence. This study established the marked sensitivity of the postischemic brain to even mild hyperthermia. 

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