Christopher T. Simons' publications from FeverLab

Liu E, Lewis K, Al-Saffar H, Krall CM, Singh A, Kulchitsky VA, Corrigan JJ, Simons CT, Petersen SR, Musteata FM, Bakshi CS, Romanovsky AA, Sellati TJ, Steiner AA. Naturally occurring hypothermia is more advantageous than fever in severe forms of lipopolysaccharide- and Escherichia coli-induced systemic inflammation. Am J Physiol 302: R1372-R1383, 2012.

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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