[Impulse activity of skin receptors in local convective and radiant cooling]. / Impul'snaia aktivnost' kozhnykh retseptorov pri konvektivnom i radiatsionnom lokal'nom okhlazhdenii.

In rabbits, impulse activity in cooling through convection was 8 times as great as in cooling through radiation. The former cooling increases impulse activity twofold as compared to the radiation cooling in hairless areas. Changes in impulse activity of fibers of the cutaneous nerve were characterized by considerable fluctuations of rhythm and an increase of receptors activity in hairless areas thus showing an obvious relation with cooling of cutaneous tissues.

[Thermoregulatory response to local convection and radiation cooling]. / Reaktsii termoreguliatsii na lokal'noe konvektivnoe i radiatsionnoe okhlazhdenie.

When equal amounts of cooling were applied to the skin of rabbits the heat production and heat loss elicited by means of convection had shorter latencies and were by 40 to 50 per cent more pronounced that those elicited by radiation. The correlation of the thermoregulatory reactions with the skin temperature was more stable in experiments with convective cooling. Cooling of the skin by 7 to 10 degrees C was optimal for the distinctions between the results.