“…Hypothermia is an established neuroprotectant in cerebral ischemia, but data in ICH models are inconclusive (MacLellan et al, 2009a(MacLellan et al, , 2010. Interestingly, hyperthermia protocols that aggravate ischemic brain injury (e.g., elevating temperature to 391C for 3 hours) cause no harmful effects in ICH models (MacLellan and Colbourne, 2005;Penner et al, 2011), while clinical data on post-ICH fever are inconclusive (Leira et al, 2004;Schwarz et al, 2000;Szczudlik et al, 2002;Wang et al, 2000Wang et al, , 2008a. At least for striatal ICH, both collagenase and whole blood models do not appear to spontaneously cause postoperative changes in temperature when measured via telemetry probes (MacLellan et al, 2004(MacLellan et al, , 2006b), but different results may occur in mice or in animals with more severe insults, drug treatments, or different surgical techniques (e.g., nonsterile surgery) than we used.…”