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Sleep deprivation-induced hyperthermia following antigen challenge due to opioid but not interleukin-1 involvement
R Brown1, M G King, A J Husband
1Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Shortland, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
Eight hours total sleep deprivation does not affect colonic temperature. The combination of a subpyrogenic challenge of sheep red blood cells with sleep loss however, can produce a significant rise in colonic temperature that peaks during the third hour of the sleep deprivation vigil. The regulation of this increase in colonic temperature appears to be opioid in nature and not because of the release of the cytokine interleukin-1. It would appear that the combination of sleep loss and low dose antigen challenge, both manipulations of themselves nonpyrogenic, produces a synergistic rise in colonic temperature. The implication of a psychologically-derived stress response via the opioid system may explain this finding.