【Abstract】 Larger species,including humans,may benefit from a lower body temperature when recovering from CNS ischaemia and other traumatic insults.The therapeutic efficacy of the hypothermic treatment is likely to be influenced by the nature of the reduction in body temperature (that is,forced versus regulated).Rodents subjected to many types of pathophysiological insults undergo a regulated hypothermic response.Regulated hypothermia would seem to be the best means of achieving a therapeutic benefit.This review focuses on pathophysiological significance of regulated hypothermia,and role of arginine vasopressin in regulated hypothermia and its mechanisms.
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