Thermal Regulation in Medicine

Targeted Intestinal Cooling Offers Superior Brain Protection in the Mouse Stroke Model

This study evaluates targeted intestinal cooling (CC) versus body surface cooling (SC) and normothermia (NT) in a mouse stroke model, finding CC significantly reduces brain injury and improves survival and function.

Artificially induced torpor during pregnancy impairs fetal growth in mice

This study shows that artificially induced hypothermia during pregnancy in mice causes fetal growth impairment and pregnancy loss, highlighting the importance of maternal body temperature in fetal development.

A simple, inexpensive battery-powered homeothermic warming pad for mice and rats

The paper describes a low-cost, battery-powered warming pad for mice and rats to maintain core body temperature during anesthesia, showing it can keep animals normothermic for over 6 hours.

A low-cost mouse cage warming system provides improved intra-ischemic and post-ischemic body temperature control &ndash: application for reducing variability in experimental stroke studies

This paper describes a low-cost mouse cage warming system that improves temperature control during and after stroke experiments, reducing variability in outcomes.