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List of works by William W Blessing

5-Hydroxytryptamine 1A receptors inhibit cold-induced sympathetically mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction in rabbits.

scientific article published on 8 August 2003

Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in rostral medullary raphé inhibits cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by cold exposure in rabbits

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Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in the medullary raphe reduces cardiovascular changes elicited by acute psychological and inflammatory stresses in rabbits

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Activation of dopamine D2 receptors in the CNS inhibits sympathetic cutaneous vasomotor alerting responses (SCVARs), contributing to clozapine's SCVAR-inhibiting action.

scientific article published on 19 October 2006

Activation of slowly conducting medullary raphe-spinal neurons, including serotonergic neurons, increases cutaneous sympathetic vasomotor discharge in rabbit

scientific article published on 18 November 2004

Acute increases in forebrain blood flow during alerting responses in conscious rabbits

scientific article published on August 29, 1997

Age-related loss of dorsal vagal neurons in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Arterial Pressure and Plasma Vasopressin: Regulation by Neurons in the Caudal Ventrolateral Medulla of the Rabbit

scientific article published on January 1, 1984

Attenuated cold defense responses in orexin neuron-ablated rats

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Atypical antipsychotics cause an acute increase in cutaneous hand blood flow in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder

scientific article published on August 2011

Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis contributes to emotional hyperthermia in a resident rat suddenly confronted with an intruder rat

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis heats brain and body as part of the brain-coordinated ultradian basic rest-activity cycle.

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis precedes food intake in genetically obese Zucker (fa/fa) rats

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis, the basic rest-activity cycle, meal initiation, and bodily homeostasis in rats

scientific article published on 03 April 2013

CRF1 receptor antagonist CP-154,526 reduces cardiovascular responses during acute psychological stress in rabbits.

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Cerebral blood flow in rabbits during the nasopharyngeal reflex elicited by inhalation of noxious vapor

scientific article published on October 13, 1997

Characteristics of caudal ventrolateral medullary neurons antidromically activated from rostral ventrolateral medulla in the rabbit

scientific article published on June 12, 1992

Chemoreceptor and baroreceptor responses of A1 area neurons projecting to supraoptic nucleus

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Clozapine and olanzapine, but not haloperidol, reverse cold-induced and lipopolysaccharide-induced cutaneous vasoconstriction.

scientific article published in October 2004

Clozapine increases cutaneous blood flow and reduces sympathetic cutaneous vasomotor alerting responses (SCVARs) in rats: comparison with effects of haloperidol.

scientific article published in September 2005

Clozapine reverses increased brown adipose tissue thermogenesis induced by 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and by cold exposure in conscious rats.

scientific article published on 11 July 2006

Cutaneous vasoconstriction with alerting stimuli in rabbits reflects a patterned redistribution of cardiac output

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Destruction of Noradrenergic Neurons in Rabbit Brainstem Elevates Plasma Vasopressin, Causing Hypertension

scientific article published on August 13, 1982

Destruction of locus coeruleus neuronal perikarya after injection of anti-dopamine-B-hydroxylase immunotoxin into the olfactory bulb of the rat

scientific article published on February 27, 1998

Direct projection of catecholamine (presumably dopamine)-containing neurons from hypothalamus to spinal cord

scientific article published on January 1, 1979

Distribution of catecholamine-containing cell bodies in the rabbit central nervous system

scientific article published on May 15, 1978

Dopamine D2 receptor stimulation inhibits cold-initiated thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue in conscious rats

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Fever response to intravenous prostaglandin E2 is mediated by the brain but does not require afferent vagal signaling

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Galanin immunoreactive neurons in the human hypothalamus: Colocalization with vasopressin-containing neurons

scientific article published on August 15, 1990

Galanin-containing fibers innervate substance P-containing neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in humans

scientific article published on July 30, 1993

Heating and eating: brown adipose tissue thermogenesis precedes food ingestion as part of the ultradian basic rest-activity cycle in rats

scientific article published on 15 November 2011

Immune lesions of central noradrenergic nerves in the rat produced by antibodies to dopamine-beta-hydroxylase

scientific article published on January 1, 1978

Immune lesions of central noradrenergic neurons produced by antibodies to dopamine-β-hydroxylase

scientific article published on September 7, 1979

Immune lesions of noradrenergic neurones in rat central nervous system produced by antibodies to dopamine-beta-hydroxylase

scientific article published on May 26, 1977

Inactivation of neuronal function in the amygdaloid region reduces tail artery blood flow alerting responses in conscious rats.

scientific article published on 13 October 2012

Inhibition of medullary raphé/parapyramidal neurons prevents cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by alerting stimuli and by cold exposure in conscious rabbits

scientific article published in July 2005

Inhibition of rostral medullary raphé neurons prevents cold-induced activity in sympathetic nerves to rat tail and rabbit ear arteries

scientific article published in February 2004

Inhibitory cardiovascular function of neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla of the rabbit: Relationship to the area containing A1 noradrenergic cells

scientific article published on December 16, 1982

JL13 has clozapine-like actions on thermoregulatory cutaneous blood flow in rats: Involvement of serotonin 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptor mechanisms.

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Lateral habenula regulation of emotional hyperthermia: mediation via the medullary raphé.

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Lower brainstem pathways regulating sympathetically mediated changes in cutaneous blood flow.

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Medullary pathways for adrenocorticotropic hormone and vasopressin secretion in rabbits

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Multiple-system atrophy: a new α-synuclein disease?

scientific article published on August 15, 1998

Neurons in ventral tegmental area tonically inhibit sympathetic outflow to brown adipose tissue; possible mediation of thermogenic signals from lateral habenula

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

New treatment for Ecstasy-related hyperthermia.

scientific article published on December 2003

Parasympathetic innervation of cephalic arteries in rabbits: Comparison with sympathetic and sensory innervation

scientific article published on December 22, 1997

Preganglionic parasympathetic neurons projecting to the sphenopalatine ganglion contain nitric oxide synthase in the rabbit

scientific article published on September 19, 1997

Projections from rabbit caudal medulla to C1 and A5 sympathetic premotor neurons, demonstrated with phaseolus leucoagglutinin and herpes simplex virus

scientific article published on March 22, 1992

Reduced brown adipose tissue thermogenesis during environmental interactions in transgenic rats with ataxin-3-mediated ablation of hypothalamic orexin neurons

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Renal and adrenal sympathetic preganglionic neurons in rabbit spinal cord: tracing with herpes simplex virus

scientific article published on February 21, 1992

SR59230A, a beta-3 adrenoceptor antagonist, inhibits ultradian brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and interrupts associated episodic brain and body heating

scientific article published on 3 August 2011

Selective blockade of 5-HT2A receptors attenuates the increased temperature response in brown adipose tissue to restraint stress in rats

scientific article published in March 2008

Serotonin-synthesizing neurons in the rostral medullary raphé/parapyramidal region transneuronally labelled after injection of pseudorabies virus into the rat tail.

scientific article published in February 2006

Simultaneous fixation and production of catecholamine fluorescence in central nervous tissue by perfusion with aldehydes

scientific article published on November 1, 1977

Spinal 5-HT2A receptors regulate cutaneous sympathetic vasomotor outflow in rabbits and rats; relevance for cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, "Ecstasy") and its reversal by clozapine

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Sympathetic cutaneous vasomotor alerting responses (SCVARs) are associated with hippocampal theta rhythm in non-moving conscious rats.

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Synaptic interaction of vagal afferents and catecholaminergic neurons in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius

scientific article published on October 24, 1983

Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue: increase by 5-HT2A receptor activation and decrease by 5-HT1A receptor activation in conscious rats

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Timing of activities of daily life is jaggy: How episodic ultradian changes in body and brain temperature are integrated into this process

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Transgenic rats with ataxin3-mediated destruction of orexin neurons have a diminished brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenic response to confrontation with an intruder rat

Transneuronal labeling of neurons in rabbit brain after injection of herpes simplex virus type 1 into the aortic depressor nerve

scientific article published on September 6, 1991

Transneuronal labelling of neurons in rabbit brain after injection of Herpes simplex virus type 1 into the renal nerve

scientific article published on January 1, 1993

Transneuronal transport of herpes simplex virus from the cervical vagus to brain neurons with axonal inputs to central vagal sensory nuclei in the rat

scientific article published on January 1, 1991

Ventricular arrhythmias triggered by alerting stimuli in conscious rabbits pre-treated with dofetilide.

scientific article published on 29 November 2003

When administered to rats in a cold environment, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine reduces brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and increases tail blood flow: effects of pretreatment with 5-HT1A and dopamine D2 antagonists.

scientific article published on 2 May 2008