Mechanisms of heat injury
On the basis of all the above evidence, what is the Mechanism of heat injury? According to Crisan (1973), some 25 hypotheses have been proposed to explain it. In view of the many kinds of heat injury described above, any attempt to identify a single mechanism seems futile. The secondary, heat-induced, water stress which injures vai desiccation is discussed in Vol.2, Chapter 5, and will not be considered here. The following are the remaining possibilities.