Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; and
2. Department of Medicine, John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48201
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that in dogs performing mild to moderate treadmill exercise, partial graded reductions in hindlimb blood flow cause active skeletal muscle to become ischemic and metabolites to accumulate thus evoking the muscle metaboreflex. This leads to a substantial reflex increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP) mediated almost solely via a rise in cardiac output (CO). However, during severe exercise CO is likely near maximal and thus metaboreflex-mediated increases in MAP may be attenuated. We therefore evoked the metaboreflex via partial graded reductions in hindlimb blood flow in seven dogs during mild, moderate, and severe treadmill exercise. During mild and moderate exercise there was a large rise in CO (1.5 ± 0.2 and 2.2 ± 0.3 l/min, respectively), whereas during severe exercise no significant increase in CO occurred. The rise in CO caused a marked pressor response that was significantly attenuated during severe exercise (26.3 ± 7.0, 33.2 ± 5.6, and 12.2 ± 4.8 mmHg, respectively). We conclude that during severe exercise the metaboreflex pressor response mechanisms are altered such that the ability of this reflex to increase CO is abolished, and reduced pressor response occurs only via peripheral vasoconstriction. This shift in mechanisms likely limits the effectiveness of the metaboreflex to increase blood flow to ischemic active skeletal muscle. Furthermore, because the metaboreflex is a flow-raising reflex and not a pressure-raising reflex, it may be most appropriate to describe the metaboreflex magnitude based on its ability to evoke a rise in CO and not a rise in MAP.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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