By Jennifer Fergenbaum Heat conductance from the body core to the skin surface. New York, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, 1980.
Body temperature is controlled by balancing heat production against heat loss.
Most heat produced in the body is generated in the deep organs such as the liver, brain, heart and skeletal muscles. This heat is then transferred from the deep organs and tissues to the skin, where it is lost to surroundings. This centre serves as a thermostatic, for regulation of body temperature. This centre contains large number of heat sensitive and cold sensitive neurons, which either increase or decrease their firing rate as temperature changes. If the arterial blood flowing through this portion of the hypothalamus is above normal temperature, the hypothalamus stimulates heat sensitive neurons to increase firing, which initiates impulses to invoke heat loss mechanisms.