Fever Facts
The lowest temperature technically considered a fever
99.5ºF (or 100.4ºF)
This symptom describes a regulated temperature rise by the body in response to infections, inflammatory responses, etc
Fever
High temperatures can cause unfolding of which biomolecules
Proteins
Technical name for fevers
Pyrexia
This symptom describes a temperature rise due to a thermoregulation failure
Hyperthermia
Heat can lead to cell death via membrane leakage. This is likely due to the disruption/breaking of which major cell structure?
Plasma membrane
Part of the brain responsible for triggering fevers
Hypothalamus
A life-threatening emergency most commonly associated with hyperthermia; less associated with fevers
Heat Stroke
The vascular response to excess external heat
Vasodilation
Name of the class of drug designed to lower fevers
Antipyretics
The name of the temperature that the body will move toward during a fever
hypothalamic set point
The biological components responsible for cell-to-cell attachment that can also protect against heat damage. (hint - from Wednesday's lecture)
Desmosomes