Full Description
It is a great pleasure to publish this book in celebration of the 88th birthday on March 3, 1971, of Dr. Yasu Kuno, a member of the Japan Academy and Emeritus Professor of Nagoya University. This celebrated scholar, who is not only respected by those under his direction but who is also a great credit to the medical science of Japan, is a pioneer in the field of physiological research on human perspiration. The result of his life's work "The Physiology of Human Perspiration" (Churchill, London, 1934), to which he devoted all his energies, must be called a monumental work. This book has won worldwide recognition as one of the most authoritative references in this field. Following this work, in 1956, Dr. Kuno published a supplementary volume which contains many of the results of his later research, "Human Perspiration" (Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois). The beginning of his research in perspiration goes back to 1922, when Dr. Kuno was a professor of physiology at Manchuria Medical College. This was also the start in Japan of systematic studies of physiology centering on the study of the regulation of body temperature. Since then, while a professor of physiology at Manchuria Medical College, Kyoto University, Nagoya University and the Mie Prefectural Medical Col lege, and even after cessation of his duties there, Dr.
Contents
I Body Temperature Regulation.- 1. Peripheral Inputs to the Central Regulator for Body Temperature.- 2. Spinal Cord and Temperature Regulation.- 3. Neural Factors Affecting the Regulatory Responses of Body Temperature.- 4. Thermosensitive Neurons in the Brain.- II Sweating and Heat Adaptability.- 5. Morphological Attempts to Solve Some Unsettled Problems on the Human Eccrine Sweat Glands.- 6. Local Determinants of Sweat Gland Activity.- 7. Adrenaline Sweating.- 8. Salt Concentration in Sweat and Heat Adaptability.- 9. Desert Sweat Rates.- 10. The Effect in Man of Acclimatisation to Heat on Water Intake, Sweat Rate and Water Balance.- III Responses to Cold and Cold Adaptability.- 11. Physiological Adaptation in Infant Mammals.- 12. Man and Cold Stress.- 13. Thyroid Activity and Cold Adaptability.- 14. Mechanisms Involved in Thermoregulatory Heat Production in Brown Adipose Tissue.- 15. Participation of the Limbic-hypothalamic Structures in Cold Adaptation.- 16. Thermal Regulation during Water Immersion.- 17. Lipid Metabolism of Cold-adapted Man.- IV Seasonal and Circadian Variations of Physiological Activitities.- 18. Chronobiology of the Life Sequence.- 19. Circadian Rhythm in Body Temperature.- 20. Thermal Conductance in Man: Its Dependence on Time of Day and on Ambient Temperature.- 21. Influence of Light and Hormones upon Circadian Rhythm of EEG Slow Wave and Paradoxical Sleep.- 22. Circadian Rhythm in Pituitary-adrenocortical Function.- 23. Seasonal and Circadian Variations in Body Fluid.- 24. Seasonal Variation of Basal Metabolism in Japanese.
