NHMRC Research Fellowship 2009 - MCALLEN

Brainstem sources of cardiac vagal tone and respiratory sinus arrhythmia

David GS Farmer, Mathias Dutschmann, Julian FR Paton, Anthony E Pickering, Robin M McAllen

2016-12-15

KEY POINTS: Cardiac vagal tone is a strong predictor of health, although its central origins are unknown. Respiratory-linked fluct..

Regional brain responses associated with thermogenic and psychogenic sweating events in humans

Michael J Farrell, David Trevaks, Nigel AS Taylor, Robin M McAllen

2015-11-01

Sweating events occur in response to mental stress (psychogenic) or with increased body temperature (thermogenic). We previously f..

Segmental origins of cardiac sympathetic nerve activity in rats

Natasha H Pracejus, David GS Farmer, Robin M McAllen

2015-01-01

The segmental origins of cardiac sympathetic nerve activity (CSNA) were investigated in 8 urethane-anesthetized, artificially vent..

Reflex control of inflammation by the splanchnic anti-inflammatory pathway is sustained and independent of anesthesia

Davide Martelli, Song T Yao, Julian Mancera, Michael J McKinley, Robin M McAllen

2014-11-01

Following an immune challenge, there is two-way communication between the nervous and immune systems. It is proposed that a neural..

Preoptic activation and connectivity during thermal sweating in humans.

Michael J Farrell, David Trevaks, Robin M McAllen

2014-07-01

Animal studies have identified the preoptic area as the key thermoregulatory region of the brain but no comparable information exi..

The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway: A critical review

D Martelli, MJ McKinley, RM McAllen

2014-05-01

From a critical review of the evidence on the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway and its mode of action, the following conclusi..

Reflex control of inflammation by sympathetic nerves, not the vagus

D Martelli, ST Yao, MJ McKinley, RM McAllen

2014-04-01

We investigated a neural reflex that controls the strength of inflammatory responses to immune challenge - the inflammatory reflex..

Reflex control of rat tail sympathetic nerve activity by abdominal temperature.

Anthony D Shafton, Peter Kitchener, Michael J McKinley, Robin M McAllen

2014-04-01

The thermoregulatory reflex effects of warming and cooling in the abdomen were investigated in 4 urethane-anesthetized Sprague-Daw..

Role of an excitatory preoptic-raphe pathway in febrile vasoconstriction of the rat's tail

Mutsumi Tanaka, Michael J McKinley, Robin M McAllen

2013-12-01

Heat dissipation from the rat's tail is reduced in response to cold and during fever. The sympathetic premotor neurons for this me..

Brain stem representation of thermal and psychogenic sweating in humans

Michael J Farrell, David Trevaks, Nigel AS Taylor, Robin M McAllen

2013-05-01

Functional MRI was used to identify regions in the human brain stem activated during thermal and psychogenic sweating. Two groups ..

Multiple thermoregulatory effectors with independent central controls

Robin M McAllen, Mutsumi Tanaka, Yoichiro Ootsuka, Michael J McKinley

2010-05-01

This review first considers how mammalian body temperature regulation evolved, and how the brain's responses to thermoregulatory c..

Short of air? Cool it!

RM McAllen

2009-11-01