… Under thermal stress, the human body achieves heat … body temperature rises, which leads
to heat stroke, a life-threatening … dysfunction in the setting of an environmental thermal load. …

… to heat stroke earlier in life. Previously, we explored mechanistic links between 3 heat stroke
and … using a preclinical mouse model of 4 exertional heat stroke (EHS). Profound metabolic …

… As the rate of heat transfer is largely dependent on the thermal gradient, the limited … >42C,
the core-to-skin thermal gradient and resultant heat transfer is likely greater as well. Military …

… High air temperatures, solar loads, and absolute humidity combined with low air flows and …
that the determination of heat intolerance should be based upon the thermal-circulatory ratio (…

… reflect differences in the overall thermal load between PHS and EHS. … thermal area was
matched, using an elevated T env in the chamber (43.5C). This resulted in an average thermal …

… In the past two decades, record-breaking heatwaves have caused an increasing number of
heat-related deaths, including heatstroke, globally. Heatstroke is a heat illness characterized …

… 47) reported improved thermal tolerance in monkeys passively exposed to heat stress when
… fever would add to the overall heat load and reduced heat tolerance. More important is the …

… heat injury or heat stroke. In this study we compared responses of male and female adult
mice to exertional heat stroke (… Ascending thermal area was used as an index of thermal load …

… To address this issue, we used an established mouse model of heat stroke to determine the
… Thermal load (in degrees Celsius multiplied by minutes; measured as thermal area) was …

… In military environments, heat illness risk is often exacerbated by heavy carrying loads, …
conditions – the NRL heat policy was updated to account for the thermal characteristics of the …