Symposium on

  Experimental Biology Meeting, San Diego, California, April 16, 2000

Special issue on

  Autonomic Neuroscience:  Basic and Clinical  85 (1-3), 2000

The symposium on Fever:  The Role of the Vagus Nerve took place on April 16, 2000, in San Diego, California, at the Experimental Biology Meeting.  Four sections of the American Physiological Society sponsored the symposium:  Environmental and Exercise Physiology; Central Nervous System; Endocrinology and Metabolism; and Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation.

The papers listed below were published by the Autonomic Neuroscience:  Basic and Clinical as the proceedings of this symposium.  This publication was made possible by Dr. G. Burnstock (Editor-in-Chief), Dr. P.L.R. Andrews (Associate Editor), Dr. R. Fisher-Driessen (Elsevier, Publishing Editor), and Ms. M. Twaig (Elsevier, Administrative Editor).  Drs. M.C. Andresen, H.-R. Berthoud, C.M. Blatteis, L.V. Borovikova, M. Cabanac, A.D. Craig, Jr., L.I. Crawshaw, J.K. Elmquist, R.P.A. Gaykema, L.E. Goehler, C.J. Gordon, M.K. Hansen, M.M. Heinricher, W.S. Hunter, A.I. Ivanov, J.-P. Konsman, J.M. Krueger, W. Kozak, L.R. Leon, G.N. Luheshi, R.J. Lukas, S.F. Maier, D.M. Nance, F. Obál, Jr., M.R. Opp, C.R. Plata-Salamán, S.R. Petersen, Q.J. Pittman, M.E. Rashotte, L.M. Rinaman, S. Rivest, M. Shibata, Y.P. Shimansky, G.J. Schwartz, and L.R. Watkins served as referees on submitted manuscripts.

XOMA and ALZA corporations provided financial support to this project.

Preface
Romanovsky AA.  Six blind men and the manifold vagus.  Auton Neurosci 85: vii-ix, 2000.  PDF

Reviews
Berthoud H-R and Neuhuber WL.  Functional and chemical anatomy of the afferent vagal system.  Auton Neurosci 85: 1-17, 2000.  PubMed record

Nagashima K, Nakai S, Tanaka M, and Kanosue K.  Neuronal circuitries involved in thermoregulation.  Auton Neurosci 85: 18-25, 2000.  PubMed record

Székely M.  The vagus nerve in thermoregulation and energy metabolism.  Auton Neurosci 85: 26-38, 2000.  PubMed record

Romanovsky AA.  Thermoregulatory manifestations of systemic inflammation:  Lessons from vagotomy.  Auton Neurosci 85: 39-48, 2000.  PubMed record  PDF

Goehler LE, Gaykema RPA, Hansen MK, Anderson K, Maier SF, and Watkins LR.  Vagal immune-to-brain communication:  A visceral chemosensory pathway.  Auton Neurosci 85: 49-59, 2000.  PubMed record

Dantzer R, Konsman J-P, Bluthé R-M, and Kelley KW.  Neural and humoral pathways of communication from the immune system to the brain:  Parallel or convergent?  Auton Neurosci 85: 60-65, 2000.  PubMed record

Blatteis CM and Li S.  Pyrogenic signaling via vagal afferents:  What stimulates their receptors?  Auton Neurosci 85: 66-71, 2000.  PubMed record

Short communications
Gaykema RPA, Goehler LE, Hansen MK, Maier SF, and Watkins LR.  Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy blocks interleukin-1b-induced fever but does not reduce IL-1b levels in the circulation.  Auton Neurosci 85: 72-77, 2000.  PubMed record

Székely M, Balaskó M, Kulchitsky VA, Simons CT, Ivanov AI, and Romanovsky AA.  Multiple neural mechanisms of fever.  Auton Neurosci 85: 78-82, 2000.  PubMed record  PDF

Hansen MK, Daniels S, Goehler LE, Gaykema RPA, Maier SF, and Watkins LR.  Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy does not block intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide-induced fever.  Auton Neurosci 85: 83-87, 2000.  PubMed record

Matsumura K, Kaihatsu S, Imai H, Terao A, Shiraki T, and Kobayashi S.  Cyclooxygenase in the vagal afferents:  Is it involved in the brain prostaglandin response evoked by lipopolysaccharide?  Auton Neurosci 85: 88-92, 2000.  PubMed record

Bucinskaite V, Kurosawa M, and Lundeberg T.  Effect of interleukin-1b on subdiaphragmatic vagal efferents in the rat.  Auton Neurosci 85: 93-97, 2000.  PubMed record

Rinaman L and Comer J.  Antagonism of central glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors enhances lipopolysaccharide-induced fever.  Auton Neurosci 85: 98-101, 2000.  PubMed record

Full length original research papers
Gordon FJ.  Effect of nucleus tractus solitarius lesions on fever produced by interleukin-1b.  Auton Neurosci 85: 102-110, 2000.  PubMed record

Ivanov AI, Kulchitsky VA, Sugimoto N, Simons CT, and Romanovsky AA.  Does the formation of lipopolysaccharide tolerance require intact vagal innervation of the liver?  Auton Neurosci 85: 111-118, 2000.  PubMed record  PDF  

Hansen MK, Nguyen KT, Goehler LE, Gaykema RPA, Fleshner M, Maier SF, and Watkins LR.  Effects of vagotomy on lipopolysaccharide-induced brain interleukin-1b protein in rats.  Auton Neurosci 85: 119-126, 2000.  PubMed record

Luheshi GN, Bluthé R-M, Rushforth D, Mulcahy N, Konsman J-P, Goldback M, and Dantzer R.  Vagotomy attenuates the behavioural but not the pyrogenic effects of interleukin-1 in rats.  Auton Neurosci 85: 127-132, 2000.  PubMed record

Romanovsky AA, Ivanov AI, Lenczowski MJP, Kulchitsky VA, Van Dam A-M, Poole S, Homer LD, and Tilders FJH.  Lipopolysaccharide transport from the peritoneal cavity to the blood:  Is it controlled by the vagus nerve?  Auton Neurosci 85: 133-140, 2000.  PubMed record  PDF  

Borovikova LV, Ivanova S, Nardi D, Zhang M, Yang H, Ombrellino M, and Tracey KJ.  Role of vagus nerve signaling in CNI-1493-mediated suppression of acute inflammation.  Auton Neurosci 85: 141-147, 2000.  PubMed record

Rowsey PJ and Gordon CJ.  A peripheral mechanism of fever:  Differential sensitivity to the antipyretic activity of methyl scopolamine.  Auton Neurosci 85: 148-155, 2000.  PubMed record