Christopher T. Simons' publications from FeverLab

Romanovsky AA, Sugimoto N, Simons CT, Hunter WS. The organum vasculosum laminae terminalis in immune-to-brain febrigenic signaling: a reappraisal of lesion experiments. Am J Physiol 285: R420-R428, 2003.

Szekely M, Balasko M, Kulchitsky VA, Simons CT, Ivanov AI, Romanovsky AA. Multiple neural mechanisms of fever. Auton Neurosci 85: 78-82, 2000.

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

Sugimoto N, Simons CT, Romanovsky AA. Vagotomy does not affect thermal responsiveness to intrabrain prostaglandin E₂ and cholecystokinin octapeptide. Brain Res 844: 157-163, 1999.

Simons CT, Kulchitsky VA, Sugimoto N, Homer LD, Szekely M, Romanovsky AA. Signaling the brain in systemic inflammation: which vagal branch is involved in fever genesis? Am J Physiol 275: R63-R68, 1998.

Romanovsky AA, Simons CT, Kulchitsky VA. “Biphasic” fevers often consist of more than two phases. Am J Physiol 275: R323-R331, 1998.

Romanovsky AA, Kulchitsky VA, Simons CT, Sugimoto N. Methodology of fever research: why are polyphasic fevers often thought to be biphasic? Am J Physiol 275: R332-R338, 1998.

Romanovsky AA, Simons CT, Kulchitsky VA, Sugimoto N, Szekely M. Vagus nerve in fever: recent developments. Ann N Y Acad Sci 856: 298-299, 1998.

Romanovsky AA, Simons CT, Szekely M, Kulchitsky VA. The vagus nerve in the thermoregulatory response to systemic inflammation. Am J Physiol 273: R407-R413, 1997.

Romanovsky AA, Kulchitsky VA, Simons CT, Sugimoto N, Szekely M. Cold defense mechanisms in vagotomized rats. Am J Physiol 273: R784-R789, 1997.

Romanovsky AA, Kulchitsky VA, Simons CT, Sugimoto N, Szekely M. Febrile responsiveness of vagotomized rats is suppressed even in the absence of malnutrition. Am J Physiol 273: R777-R783, 1997.

Romanovsky AA, Simons CT, Szekely M, Kulchitsky VA. Febrile irresponsiveness of vagotomized rats to a pyrogenic signal. Non-sensing brain or non-heating body? Ann N Y Acad Sci 813: 437-444, 1997.

Romanovsky AA, Kulchitsky VA, Akulich NV, Koulchitsky SV, Simons CT, Sessler DI, Gourine VN. The two phases of biphasic fever—two different strategies of fighting infection? Ann N Y Acad Sci 813: 485-490, 1997.

Szekely M, Simons CT, Kulchitsky VA, Romanovsky AA. The abdominal vagus: its presumed role in fever and non-febrile temperature regulation. In: Thermal Physiology 1997, ed. by Nielsen Johannsen B, Nielsen R. Copenhagen, Denmark: TAKI, 1997, p. 289-292.

Romanovsky AA, Kulchitsky VA, Akulich NV, Koulchitsky SV, Simons CT, Sessler DI, Gourine VN. First and second phases of biphasic fever: two sequential stages of the sickness syndrome? Am J Physiol 271: R244-R253, 1996.

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