image: Illustration of a brain switch that turns on a discrete set of cooling neurons to drive hypothermia. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 25, 2016, online issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Song at University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'The TRPM2 channel is a hypothalamic heat sensor that limits fever and can drive hypothermia.' view more
Credit: Dr. Hagen Wende, Institute of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University, Germany