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Lijuan Wang

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Yudong Wang

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Guohua Tian

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Yuhui Di

HUMAN TRANSIENT RESPONSE UNDER LOCAL THERMAL STIMULATION

ABSTRACT
Human body can operate physiological thermoregulation system when it is exposed to cold or hot environment. Whether it can do the same work when a local part of body is stimulated by different temperatures? The objective of this paper is to prove it. Twelve subjects are recruited to participate in this experiment. After stabilizing in a comfort environment, their palms are stimulated by a pouch of 39, 36, 33, 30, and 27°C. Subject's skin temperature, heart rate, heat flux of skin, and thermal sensation are recorded. The results indicate that when local part is suffering from harsh temperature, the whole body is doing physiological thermoregulation. Besides, when the local part is stimulated by high temperature and its thermal sensation is warm, the thermal sensation of whole body can be neutral. What is more, human body is more sensitive to cool stimulation than to warm one. The conclusions are significant to reveal and make full use of physiological thermoregulation.
KEYWORDS
human body, physiological parameter, thermal sensation, thermal stimulation
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2017-04-12
PAPER REVISED: 2017-05-17
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2017-05-20
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2017-12-02
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI17S1019W
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2017, VOLUME 21, ISSUE Supplement 1, PAGES [S19 - S24]
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