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1. The technique of single fibre dissection has been used to study the warm and cold thermoreceptors in the rat scrotum. 2. The warm receptors showed dynamic activity during increases of scrotal temperature and static activity when temperature was constant. The static activity/temperature curve was bell-shaped, with minima at 31 and 45 degrees C and a peak at 42 degrees C. 3. The cold receptors also showed dynamic and static responses to reductions of temperature. At steady temperatures the impulses from some receptors were grouped in bursts. The number of impulses in each burst increased from zero at 30 degrees C to four at 20 degrees C.

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