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Suggitt JO, Eaves BE, Spranger MD. What are the cardiovascular responses during blood flow-restricted resistance exercise? Front Physiol 2024; 15:1417855. [PMID: 38966227 PMCID: PMC11222610 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1417855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024] Open
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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Mannozzi J, Massoud L, Stavres J, Al-Hassan MH, O’Leary DS. Altered Autonomic Function in Metabolic Syndrome: Interactive Effects of Multiple Components. J Clin Med 2024; 13:895. [PMID: 38337589 PMCID: PMC10856260 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13030895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) describes a set of disorders that collectively influence cardiovascular health, and includes hypertension, obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. All these components (hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia, and prediabetes/diabetes) have been shown to modify autonomic function. The major autonomic dysfunction that has been documented with each of these components is in the control of sympathetic outflow to the heart and periphery at rest and during exercise through modulation of the arterial baroreflex and the muscle metaboreflex. Many studies have described MetS components in singularity or in combination with the other major components of metabolic syndrome. However, many studies lack the capability to study all the factors of metabolic syndrome in one model or have not focused on studying the effects of how each component as it arises influences overall autonomic function. The goal of this review is to describe the current understanding of major aspects of metabolic syndrome that most likely contribute to the consequent/associated autonomic alterations during exercise and discuss their effects, as well as bring light to alternative mechanisms of study.
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- Joseph Mannozzi
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48001, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48001, USA
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- School of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48001, USA
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Anselmi L, Ducrocq GP, Ruiz-Velasco V, Stocker SD, Higgins SP, Kaufman MP. Functional knockout of the TRPV1 channel has no effect on the exercise pressor reflex in rats. J Physiol 2023; 601:5241-5256. [PMID: 37878364 DOI: 10.1113/jp285267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023] Open
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The role played by the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel on the thin fibre afferents evoking the exercise pressor reflex is controversial. To shed light on this controversy, we compared the exercise pressor reflex between newly developed TRPV1+/+ , TRPV1+/- and TRPV1-/- rats. Carotid arterial injection of capsaicin (0.5 μg), evoked significant pressor responses in TRPV1+/+ and TRPV1+/- rats, but not in TRPV1-/- rats. In acutely isolated dorsal root ganglion neurons innervating the gastrocnemius muscles, capsaicin evoked inward currents in neurons isolated from TRPV1+/+ and TRPV1+/- rats but not in neurons isolated from TRPV1-/- rats. The reflex was evoked by stimulating the tibial nerve in decerebrated rats whose femoral artery was either freely perfused or occluded. We found no difference between the reflex in the three groups of rats regardless of the patency of the femoral artery. For example, the peak pressor responses to contraction in TRPV1+/+ , TRPV1+/- and TRPV1-/- rats with patent femoral arteries averaged 17.1 ± 7.2, 18.9 ± 12.4 and 18.4 ± 8.6 mmHg, respectively. Stimulation of the tibial nerve after paralysis with pancuronium had no effect on arterial pressure, findings which indicated that the pressor responses to contraction were not caused by electrical stimulation of afferent tibial nerve axons. We also found that expression levels of acid-sensing ion channel 1 and endoperoxide 4 receptor in the L4 and 5 dorsal root ganglia were not upregulated in the TRPV1-/- rats. We conclude that TRPV1 is not needed to evoke the exercise pressor reflex in rats whose contracting muscles have either a patent or an occluded arterial blood supply. KEY POINTS: A reflex arising in contracting skeletal muscle contributes to the increases in arterial blood pressure, cardiac output and breathing evoked by exercise. The sensory arm of the reflex comprises both mechanoreceptors and metaboreceptors, of which the latter signals that blood flow to exercising muscle is not meeting its metabolic demand. The nature of the channel on the metaboreceptor sensing a mismatch between supply and demand is controversial; some believe that it is the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel. Using genetically engineered rats in which the TRPV1 channel is rendered non-functional, we have shown that it is not needed to evoke the metaboreflex.
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- Laura Anselmi
- Heart and Vascular Institute Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Heart and Vascular Institute Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
- Mitochondria, Oxidative Stress and Muscular Protection Laboratory (UR 3072), Faculty of Medicine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Heart and Vascular Institute Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Heart and Vascular Institute Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Heart and Vascular Institute Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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Butenas ALE, Ishizawa R, Rollins KS, Mizuno M, Copp SW. Sex-dependent attenuating effects of capsaicin administration on the mechanoreflex in healthy rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2023; 325:H372-H384. [PMID: 37389947 PMCID: PMC10396229 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00237.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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Stimulation of mechanically sensitive channels on the sensory endings of group III and IV thin fiber muscle afferents activates the mechanoreflex, which contributes to reflex increases in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and blood pressure during exercise. Accumulating evidence suggests that activation of the nonselective cation channel transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) on the sensory endings of thin fiber afferents with capsaicin may attenuate mechanosensation. However, no study has investigated the effect of capsaicin on the mechanoreflex. We tested the hypothesis that in male and female decerebrate, unanesthetized rats, the injection of capsaicin (0.05 µg) into the arterial supply of the hindlimb reduces the pressor and renal SNA (RSNA) response to 30 s of 1 Hz rhythmic hindlimb muscle stretch (a model of isolated mechanoreflex activation). In male rats (n = 8), capsaicin injection significantly reduced the integrated blood pressure (blood pressure index or BPI: pre, 363 ± 78; post, 211 ± 88 mmHg·s; P = 0.023) and RSNA [∫ΔRSNA; pre, 687 ± 206; post, 216 ± 80 arbitrary units (au), P = 0.049] response to hindlimb muscle stretch. In female rats (n = 8), capsaicin injection had no significant effect on the pressor (BPI; pre: 277 ± 67; post: 207 ± 77 mmHg·s; P = 0.343) or RSNA (∫ΔRSNA: pre, 697 ± 123; post, 440 ± 183 au; P = 0.307) response to hindlimb muscle stretch. The data suggest that the injection of capsaicin into the hindlimb arterial supply to stimulate TRPV1 on the sensory endings of thin fiber muscle afferents attenuates the mechanoreflex in healthy male, but not female, rats. The findings may carry important implications for chronic conditions in which an exaggerated mechanoreflex contributes to aberrant sympathoexcitation during exercise.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Recent evidence in isolated sensory neurons indicates that capsaicin-induced stimulation of TRPV1 attenuates mechanosensitivity. Here we demonstrate for the first time that capsaicin exposure/administration reduces the reflex pressor and renal sympathetic nerve response to mechanoreflex activation in male rats, but not female rats, in vivo. Our data may carry important clinical implications for chronic diseases which have been linked to an exaggerated mechanoreflex, at least in males.
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- Alec L E Butenas
- Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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Kuczera K, Naparło K, Soszyński M, Bartosz G, Sadowska-Bartosz I. Capsaicin toxicity to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is not due to oxidative stress but to disruption of membrane structure. Chem Biol Interact 2023; 374:110407. [PMID: 36804492 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2023.110407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Capsaicin (CAP) is a common food constituent, conferring a pungent taste to red peppers of the genus Capsicum. It has bactericidal and fungicidal activity. The study was aimed to test the hypothesis of whether oxidative stress mediates the toxicity of CAP to the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model yeast. CAP showed good antioxidant properties (1.30 and 1.10 mol Trolox equivalents/mol in the 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate (ABTS) radical scavenging assay and the Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power assay, respectively). However, its autoxidation generated hydrogen peroxide. CAP inhibited the growth of S. cerevisiae at concentrations ≥100 μM. Yeast mutants deficient in superoxide dismutase 1 or catalase T were more sensitive to CAP than wild-type yeast. CAP did not augment the ROS level in yeast cells. Standard antioxidants (N-acetylcysteine and ascorbate) did not protect significantly against CAP-induced yeast growth inhibition. Thus, oxidative stress does not mediate the CAP's inhibition of yeast growth. CAP did not decrease mitochondrial membrane potential of the yeast but induced a concentration-dependent decrease in membrane fluidity. These results indicate that the disturbance of membrane properties is the apparent cause of CAP toxicity to the yeast.
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- Klaudia Kuczera
- Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 4 Zelwerowicza St., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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- Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 4 Zelwerowicza St., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 141/143 Pomorska St., 90-236, Lodz, Poland
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- Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 4 Zelwerowicza St., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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- Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 4 Zelwerowicza St., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland.
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Weavil JC, Kwon OS, Hughen RW, Zhang J, Light AR, Amann M. Gene and protein expression of dorsal root ganglion sensory receptors in normotensive and hypertensive male rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2022; 323:R221-R226. [PMID: 35608265 PMCID: PMC9291411 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00007.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The exercise pressor reflex (EPR), a neurocirculatory control mechanism, is exaggerated in hypertensive humans and rats. Disease-related abnormalities within the afferent arm of the reflex loop, including mechano- and metabosensitive receptors located at the terminal end of group III/IV muscle afferents, may contribute to the dysfunctional EPR in hypertension. Using control (WKY) and spontaneous hypertensive (SHR) rats, we examined dorsal root ganglion (DRG) gene and protein expression of molecular receptors recognized as significant determinants of the EPR. Twelve lumbar DRGs (6 left, 6 right) were harvested from each of 10 WKY [arterial blood pressure (MAP): 96 ± 9 mmHg] and 10 SHR (MAP: 144 ± 9 mmHg). DRGs from the left side were used for protein expression (Western blotting; normalized to GAPDH), whereas right-side DRGs (i.e., parallel structure) were used to determine mRNA levels (RNA-sequencing, normalized to TPM). Analyses focused on metabosensitive (ASIC3, Bradykinin receptor B2, EP4, P2X3, TRPv1) and mechanosensitive (Piezo1/2) receptors. Although Piezo1 was similar in both groups (P = 0.75), protein expression for all other receptors was significantly higher in SHR compared with WKY. With the exception of a greater Bradykinin-receptor B2 in SHR (P < 0.05), mRNA expression of all other receptors was not different between groups (P > 0.18). The higher protein content of these sensory receptors in SHR indirectly supports the previously proposed hypothesis that the exaggerated EPR in hypertension is, in part, due to disease-related abnormalities within the afferent arm of the reflex loop. The upregulated receptor content, combined with normal mRNA levels, insinuates that posttranscriptional regulation of sensory receptor protein expression might be impaired in hypertension.
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- Joshua C Weavil
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Kim HK, Ishizawa R, Fukazawa A, Wang Z, Bezan Petric U, Hu MC, Smith SA, Mizuno M, Vongpatanasin W. Dapagliflozin Attenuates Sympathetic and Pressor Responses to Stress in Young Prehypertensive Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Hypertension 2022; 79:1824-1834. [PMID: 35652337 PMCID: PMC9308730 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.122.19177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND SGLT2i (sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor), a class of anti-diabetic medications, is shown to reduce blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes. Mechanisms underlying this action are unknown but SGLT2i-induced sympathoinhibition is thought to play a role. Whether SGLT2i reduces BP and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) in a nondiabetic prehypertension model is unknown. METHODS Accordingly, we assessed changes in conscious BP using radiotelemetry and alterations in mean arterial pressure and renal SNA during simulated exercise in nondiabetic spontaneously hypertensive rats during chronic administration of a diet containing dapagliflozin (0.5 mg/kg per day) versus a control diet. RESULTS We found that dapagliflozin had no effect on fasting blood glucose, insulin, or hemoglobin A1C levels. However, dapagliflozin reduced BP in young (8-week old) spontaneously hypertensive rats as well as attenuated the age-related rise in BP in adult spontaneously hypertensive rat up to 17-weeks of age. The rises in mean arterial pressure and renal SNA during simulated exercise (exercise pressor reflex activation by hindlimb muscle contraction) were significantly reduced after 4 weeks of dapagliflozin (Δmean arterial pressure: 10±7 versus 25±14 mm Hg, Δrenal SNA: 31±17% versus 68±39%, P<0.05). Similarly, rises in mean arterial pressure and renal SNA during mechanoreflex stimulation by passive hindlimb stretching were also attenuated by dapagliflozin. Heart weight was significantly decreased in dapagliflozin compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrate a novel role for SGLT2i in reducing resting BP as well as the activity of skeletal muscle reflexes, independent of glycemic control. Our study may have important clinical implications for preventing hypertension and hypertensive heart disease in young prehypertensive individuals.
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- Han-Kyul Kim
- Departments of Internal Medicine-Hypertension Section (H.-K.K., Z.W., U.B.P., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.,Applied Clinical Research (H.-K.K., R.I., A.F., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Applied Clinical Research (H.-K.K., R.I., A.F., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Applied Clinical Research (H.-K.K., R.I., A.F., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Departments of Internal Medicine-Hypertension Section (H.-K.K., Z.W., U.B.P., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Departments of Internal Medicine-Hypertension Section (H.-K.K., Z.W., U.B.P., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Internal Medicine-Renal Division (M.C.H.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.,Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research (M.C.H., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Applied Clinical Research (H.-K.K., R.I., A.F., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Applied Clinical Research (H.-K.K., R.I., A.F., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Departments of Internal Medicine-Hypertension Section (H.-K.K., Z.W., U.B.P., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.,Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research (M.C.H., W.V.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Teixeira AL, Vianna LC. The exercise pressor reflex: An update. Clin Auton Res 2022; 32:271-290. [PMID: 35727398 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-022-00872-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The exercise pressor reflex is a feedback mechanism engaged upon stimulation of mechano- and metabosensitive skeletal muscle afferents. Activation of these afferents elicits a reflex increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and ventilation in an intensity-dependent manner. Consequently, the exercise pressor reflex has been postulated to be one of the principal mediators of the cardiorespiratory responses to exercise. In this updated review, we will discuss classical and recent advancements in our understating of the exercise pressor reflex function in both human and animal models. Particular attention will be paid to the afferent mechanisms and pathways involved during its activation, its effects on different target organs, its potential role in the abnormal cardiovascular response to exercise in diseased states, and the impact of age and biological sex on these responses. Finally, we will highlight some unanswered questions in the literature that may inspire future investigations in the field.
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- André L Teixeira
- NeuroV̇ASQ̇, Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, DF, Brasília, Brazil
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- NeuroV̇ASQ̇, Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, DF, Brasília, Brazil.
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Hori A, Hotta N, Fukazawa A, Estrada JA, Katanosaka K, Mizumura K, Sato J, Ishizawa R, Kim HK, Iwamoto GA, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. Insulin potentiates the response to capsaicin in dorsal root ganglion neurons in vitro and muscle afferents ex vivo in normal healthy rodents. J Physiol 2022; 600:531-545. [PMID: 34967443 PMCID: PMC8810710 DOI: 10.1113/jp282740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Systemic insulin administration evokes sympathoexcitatory actions, but the mechanisms underlying these observations are unknown. We reported that insulin sensitizes the response of thin-fibre primary afferents, as well as the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) that subserves them, to mechanical stimuli. However, little is known about the effects of insulin on primary neuronal responses to chemical stimuli. TRPV1, whose agonist is capsaicin (CAP), is widely expressed on chemically sensitive metaboreceptors and/or nociceptors. The aim of this investigation was to determine the effects of insulin on CAP-activated currents in small DRG neurons and CAP-induced action potentials in thin-fibre muscle afferents of normal healthy rodents. Additionally, we investigated whether insulin potentiates sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) responses to CAP. In whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from cultured mice DRG neurons in vitro, the fold change in CAP-activated current from pre- to post-application of insulin (n = 13) was significantly (P < 0.05) higher than with a vehicle control (n = 14). Similar results were observed in single-fibre recording experiments ex vivo as insulin potentiated CAP-induced action potentials compared to vehicle controls (n = 9 per group, P < 0.05). Furthermore, insulin receptor blockade with GSK1838705 significantly suppressed the insulin-induced augmentation in CAP-activated currents (n = 13) as well as the response magnitude of CAP-induced action potentials (n = 9). Likewise, the renal SNA response to CAP after intramuscular injection of insulin (n = 8) was significantly (P < 0.05) greater compared to vehicle (n = 9). The findings suggest that insulin potentiates TRPV1 responsiveness to CAP at the DRG and muscle tissue levels, possibly contributing to the augmentation in sympathoexcitation during activities such as physical exercise. KEY POINTS: Evidence suggests insulin centrally activates the sympathetic nervous system, and a chemical stimulus to tissues activates the sympathetic nervous system via thin fibre muscle afferents. Insulin is reported to modulate putative chemical-sensitive channels in the dorsal root ganglion neurons of these afferents. In the present study, it is demonstrated that insulin potentiates the responsiveness of thin fibre afferents to capsaicin at muscle tissue levels as well as at the level of dorsal root ganglion neurons. In addition, it is demonstrated that insulin augments the sympathetic nerve activity response to capsaicin in vivo. These data suggest that sympathoexcitation is peripherally mediated via insulin-induced chemical sensitization. The present study proposes a possible physiological role of insulin in the regulation of chemical sensitivity in somatosensory thin fibre muscle afferents.
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- Amane Hori
- Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan;,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo 102-8472, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan;,College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan;,College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo 101-8310, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan;,College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Cardoso AM, Silvério MNO, de Oliveira Maciel SFV. Purinergic signaling as a new mechanism underlying physical exercise benefits: a narrative review. Purinergic Signal 2021; 17:649-679. [PMID: 34590239 PMCID: PMC8677870 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-021-09816-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
Abstract
In the last years, it has become evident that both acute and chronic physical exercise trigger responses/adaptations in the purinergic signaling and these adaptations can be considered one important mechanism related to the exercise benefits for health improvement. Purinergic system is composed of enzymes (ectonucleotidases), receptors (P1 and P2 families), and molecules (ATP, ADP, adenosine) that are able to activate these receptors. These components are widely distributed in almost all cell types, and they respond/act in a specific manner depending on the exercise types and/or intensities as well as the cell type (organ/tissue analyzed). For example, while acute intense exercise can be associated with tissue damage, inflammation, and platelet aggregation, chronic exercise exerts anti-inflammatory and anti-aggregant effects, promoting health and/or treating diseases. All of these effects are dependent on the purinergic signaling. Thus, this review was designed to cover the aspects related to the relationship between physical exercise and purinergic signaling, with emphasis on the modulation of ectonucleotidases and receptors. Here, we discuss the impact of different exercise protocols as well as the differences between acute and chronic effects of exercise on the extracellular signaling exerted by purinergic system components. We also reinforce the concept that purinergic signaling must be understood/considered as a mechanism by which exercise exerts its effects.
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- Andréia Machado Cardoso
- Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine Course, Federal University of Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, Rodovia SC 484 - Km 02, Fronteira Sul, 89815-899, Brazil.
- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
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- Medicine Course, Federal University of Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, Rodovia SC 484 - Km 02, Fronteira Sul, 89815-899, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine Course, Federal University of Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, Rodovia SC 484 - Km 02, Fronteira Sul, 89815-899, Brazil
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Mannozzi J, Al-Hassan MH, Lessanework B, Alvarez A, Senador D, O'Leary DS. Chronic ablation of TRPV1-sensitive skeletal muscle afferents attenuates the muscle metaboreflex. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2021; 321:R385-R395. [PMID: 34259041 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00129.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Exercise intolerance is a hallmark symptom of cardiovascular disease and likely occurs via enhanced activation of muscle metaboreflex-induced vasoconstriction of the heart and active skeletal muscle which, thereby limits cardiac output and peripheral blood flow. Muscle metaboreflex vasoconstrictor responses occur via activation of metabolite-sensitive afferent fibers located in ischemic active skeletal muscle, some of which express transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) cation channels. Local cardiac and intrathecal administration of an ultrapotent noncompetitive, dominant negative agonist resiniferatoxin (RTX) can ablate these TRPV1-sensitive afferents. This technique has been used to attenuate cardiac sympathetic afferents and nociceptive pain. We investigated whether intrathecal administration (L4-L6) of RTX (2 µg/kg) could chronically attenuate subsequent muscle metaboreflex responses elicited by reductions in hindlimb blood flow during mild exercise (3.2 km/h) in chronically instrumented conscious canines. RTX significantly attenuated metaboreflex-induced increases in mean arterial pressure (27 ± 5.0 mmHg vs. 6 ± 8.2 mmHg), cardiac output (1.40 ± 0.2 L/min vs. 0.28 ± 0.1 L/min), and stroke work (2.27 ± 0.2 L·mmHg vs. 1.01 ± 0.2 L·mmHg). Effects were maintained until 78 ± 14 days post-RTX at which point the efficacy of RTX injection was tested by intra-arterial administration of capsaicin (20 µg/kg). A significant reduction in the mean arterial pressure response (+45.7 ± 6.5 mmHg pre-RTX vs. +19.7 ± 3.1 mmHg post-RTX) was observed. We conclude that intrathecal administration of RTX can chronically attenuate the muscle metaboreflex and could potentially alleviate enhanced sympatho-activation observed in cardiovascular disease states.
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- Joseph Mannozzi
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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Mizuno M, Hotta N, Ishizawa R, Kim HK, Iwamoto G, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA. The Impact of Insulin Resistance on Cardiovascular Control During Exercise in Diabetes. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 2021; 49:157-167. [PMID: 33965976 PMCID: PMC8195845 DOI: 10.1249/jes.0000000000000259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Patients with diabetes display heightened blood pressure response to exercise, but the underlying mechanism remains to be elucidated. There is no direct evidence that insulin resistance (hyperinsulinemia or hyperglycemia) impacts neural cardiovascular control during exercise. We propose a novel paradigm in which hyperinsulinemia or hyperglycemia significantly influences neural regulatory pathways controlling the circulation during exercise in diabetes.
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- Masaki Mizuno
- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
- College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-850, Japan
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9174, USA
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Gama G, Farinatti P, Rangel MVDS, Mira PADC, Laterza MC, Crisafulli A, Borges JP. Muscle metaboreflex adaptations to exercise training in health and disease. Eur J Appl Physiol 2021; 121:2943-2955. [PMID: 34189604 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-021-04756-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Abnormalities in the muscle metaboreflex concur to exercise intolerance and greater cardiovascular risk. Exercise training benefits neurocardiovascular function at rest and during exercise, but its role in favoring muscle metaboreflex in health and disease remains controversial. While some authors demonstrated that exercise training enhanced the sensitization of muscle metabolically afferents and improved neurocardiovascular responses to muscle metaboreflex activation, others reported unaltered responses. This narrative review aimed to: (a) highlight the current evidence on the effects of exercise training upon cardiovascular and autonomic responses to muscle metaboreflex activation; (b) analyze the role of training components and indicate potential mechanisms of metaboreflex adaptations; and (c) address key methodological features for future research. Though limited, accumulated evidence suggests that muscle metaboreflex adaptations depend on the individual clinical status, exercise modality, and training duration. In healthy populations, most trials negated the hypothesis of metaboreflex improvement due to chronic exercise, irrespective of the training duration. Favorable changes in patients with impaired metaboreflex, particularly chronic heart failure, mostly resulted from long-term interventions (> 16 weeks) including aerobic exercise of moderate to high intensity, performed in isolation or within multimodal training. Potential mechanisms of metaboreflex improvements include enhanced sensitivity of channels and receptors, greater antioxidant capacity, lower metabolite accumulation, increased functional sympatholysis, and muscle perfusion. Future research should investigate: (1) the dose-response relationship of training components within different exercise modalities to elicit improvements in individuals showing intact or impaired muscle metaboreflex; and (2) potential and specific underlying mechanisms of metaboreflex improvements in individuals with different medical conditions.
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- Gabriel Gama
- Laboratory of Physical Activity and Health Promotion, Institute of Physical Education and Sports, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, sala 8133F, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP, 20550-013, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Physical Activity and Health Promotion, Institute of Physical Education and Sports, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, sala 8133F, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP, 20550-013, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Physical Activity Sciences, Salgado de Oliveira University, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Physical Activity and Health Promotion, Institute of Physical Education and Sports, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, sala 8133F, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP, 20550-013, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
- Cardiovascular Research Unit and Exercise Physiology - InCFEx, University Hospital and Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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- Cardiovascular Research Unit and Exercise Physiology - InCFEx, University Hospital and Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Medical Science and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physical Activity and Health Promotion, Institute of Physical Education and Sports, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, sala 8133F, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP, 20550-013, Brazil.
- Graduate Program in Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Ishizawa R, Kim HK, Hotta N, Iwamoto GA, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Vongpatanasin W, Mizuno M. TRPV1 (Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1) Sensitization of Skeletal Muscle Afferents in Type 2 Diabetic Rats With Hyperglycemia. Hypertension 2021; 77:1360-1371. [PMID: 33641357 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.120.15672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Rie Ishizawa
- From the Departments of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., J.H.M., S.A.S., W.V., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan (N.H.)
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- Cell Biology (G.A.I.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., J.H.M., S.A.S., W.V., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- From the Departments of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.,Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., J.H.M., S.A.S., W.V., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., J.H.M., S.A.S., W.V., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- From the Departments of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.,Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., J.H.M., S.A.S., W.V., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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Peçanha T, Meireles K, Pinto AJ, Rezende DAN, Iraha AY, Mazzolani BC, Smaira FI, Sales ARK, Bonfiglioli K, Sá-Pinto ALD, Lima FR, Irigoyen MC, Gualano B, Roschel H. Increased sympathetic and haemodynamic responses to exercise and muscle metaboreflex activation in post-menopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis. J Physiol 2020; 599:927-941. [PMID: 33180998 DOI: 10.1113/jp280892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients present exacerbated blood pressure responses to exercise, but little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms involved. This study assessed autonomic and haemodynamic responses to exercise and to the isolated activation of muscle metaboreflex in post-menopausal women with RA. Participants with RA showed augmented pressor and sympathetic responses to exercise and to the activation of muscle metaboreflex. These responses were associated with multiple pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines and with pain. The results of the present study support the suggestion that an abnormal reflex control of circulation is an important mechanism underlying the exacerbated cardiovascular response to exercise and increased cardiovascular risk in RA. ABSTRACT Studies have reported abnormal cardiovascular responses to exercise in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, but little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms involved. This study assessed haemodynamic and sympathetic responses to exercise and to the isolated activation of muscle metaboreflex in women diagnosed with RA. Thirty-three post-menopausal women diagnosed with RA and 10 matched controls (CON) participated in this study. Mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA frequency and incidence) were measured during a protocol of isometric knee extension exercise (3 min, 30% of maximal voluntary contraction), followed by post-exercise ischaemia (PEI). Participants with RA showed greater increases in MAP and MSNA during exercise and PEI than CON (ΔMAPexercise = 16 ± 11 vs. 9 ± 6 mmHg, P = 0.03; ΔMAPPEI = 15 ± 10 vs. 5 ± 5 mmHg, P = 0.001; ΔMSNAexercise = 17 ± 14 vs. 7 ± 9 bursts min-1 , P = 0.04; ΔMSNAPEI = 14 ± 10 vs. 6 ± 4 bursts min-1 , P = 0.04). Autonomic responses to exercise showed significant (P < 0.05) association with pro- (i.e. IFN-γ, IL-8, MCP-1 and TNFα) and anti-inflammatory (i.e. IL-1ra and IL-10) cytokines and with pain. In conclusion, post-menopausal women with RA showed augmented pressor and sympathetic responses to exercise and to the activation of muscle metaboreflex. These findings provide mechanistic insights that may explain the abnormal cardiovascular responses to exercise in RA.
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- Tiago Peçanha
- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Heart Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.,D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Heart Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.,Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport and Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.,Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Grotle AK, Macefield VG, Farquhar WB, O'Leary DS, Stone AJ. Recent advances in exercise pressor reflex function in health and disease. Auton Neurosci 2020; 228:102698. [PMID: 32861944 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2020.102698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Autonomic alterations at the onset of exercise are critical to redistribute cardiac output towards the contracting muscles while preventing a fall in arterial pressure due to excessive vasodilation within the contracting muscles. Neural mechanisms responsible for these adjustments include central command, the exercise pressor reflex, and arterial and cardiopulmonary baroreflexes. The exercise pressor reflex evokes reflex increases in sympathetic activity to the heart and systemic vessels and decreases in parasympathetic activity to the heart, which increases blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and total peripheral resistance through vasoconstriction of systemic vessels. In this review, we discuss recent advancements in our understanding of exercise pressor reflex function in health and disease. Specifically, we discuss emerging evidence suggesting that sympathetic vasoconstrictor drive to the contracting and non-contracting skeletal muscle is differentially controlled by central command and the metaboreflex in healthy conditions. Further, we discuss evidence from animal and human studies showing that cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure, lead to an altered exercise pressor reflex function. We also provide an update on the mechanisms thought to underlie this altered exercise pressor reflex function in each of these diseases. Although these mechanisms are complex, multifactorial, and dependent on the etiology of the disease, there is a clear consensus that several mechanisms are involved. Ultimately, approaches targeting these mechanisms are clinically significant as they provide alternative therapeutic strategies to prevent adverse cardiovascular events while also reducing symptoms of exercise intolerance.
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- Ann-Katrin Grotle
- Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America.
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Hotta N, Hori A, Okamura Y, Baba R, Watanabe H, Sugawara J, Vongpatanasin W, Wang J, Kim HK, Ishizawa R, Iwamoto GA, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. Insulin resistance is associated with an exaggerated blood pressure response to ischemic rhythmic handgrip exercise in nondiabetic older adults. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2020; 129:144-151. [PMID: 32584663 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00247.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Patients with type 2 diabetes display an exaggerated pressor response to exercise. However, evidence supporting the association between the magnitude of the pressor response to exercise and insulin resistance-related factors including hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) or homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in nondiabetic subjects has remained sparse and inconclusive. Thus we investigated the relationship between cardiovascular responses to exercise and insulin resistance-related factors in nondiabetic healthy men (n = 23) and women (n = 22) above 60 yr old. We measured heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) responses during: isometric handgrip (IHG) exercise of 30% maximal voluntary contraction, a period of skeletal muscle ischemia (SMI) induced by tourniqueting the arm after IHG, and rhythmic dynamic handgrip (DHG) exercise during SMI. Greater diastolic BP (DBP) responses to DHG with SMI was associated with male sex (r = 0.44, P = 0.02) and higher HbA1c (r = 0.33, P = 0.03), heart-ankle pulse wave velocity (haPWV) (r = 0.45, P < 0.01), and resting systolic BP (SBP) (r = 0.36, P = 0.02). HbA1c persisted as a significant determinant explaining the variance in the DBP response to DHG with SMI in multivariate models despite adjustment for sex, haPWV, and resting SBP. It was also determined that the DBP response to DHG with SMI in a group in which HOMA-IR was abnormal (Δ33 ± 3 mmHg) was significantly higher than that of groups in which HOMA-IR was at intermediate (Δ20 ± 4 mmHg) and normal (Δ23 ± 2 mmHg) levels. These data suggest that even in nondiabetic older adults, insulin resistance is related to an exaggerated pressor response to exercise especially when performed under ischemic conditions.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The diastolic blood pressure response to rhythmic dynamic handgrip exercise under ischemic conditions was demonstrated to be correlated with insulin resistance-related factors in nondiabetic older adults. This finding provides important insight to the prescription of exercise in this particular patient population as the blood pressure response to exercise, especially under ischemic conditions, could be exaggerated to nonsafe levels.
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- Norio Hotta
- College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
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- College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
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- College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Tokai Memorial Hospital, Kasugai, Japan
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- Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Ishizawa R, Kim HK, Hotta N, Iwamoto GA, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. Skeletal Muscle Reflex-Induced Sympathetic Dysregulation and Sensitization of Muscle Afferents in Type 1 Diabetic Rats. Hypertension 2020; 75:1072-1081. [PMID: 32063060 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.119.14118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The blood pressure response to exercise is exaggerated in the type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). An overactive exercise pressor reflex (EPR) contributes to the potentiated pressor response. However, the mechanism(s) underlying this abnormal EPR activity remains unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that the heightened blood pressure response to exercise in T1DM is mediated by EPR-induced sympathetic overactivity. Additionally, the study examined whether the single muscle afferents are sensitized by PKC (protein kinase C) activation in this disease. Sprague-Dawley rats were intraperitoneally administered either 50 mg/kg streptozotocin (T1DM) or saline (control). At 1 to 3 weeks after administration, renal sympathetic nerve activity and mean arterial pressure responses to activation of the EPR, mechanoreflex, and metaboreflex were measured in decerebrate animals. Action potential responses to mechanical and chemical stimulation were determined in group IV afferents with pPKCα (phosphorylated-PKCα) levels assessed in dorsal root ganglia. Compared with control, EPR (58±18 versus 96±33%; P<0.05), mechanoreflex (21±13 versus 51±20%; P<0.05), and metaboreflex (40±20 versus 88±39%; P<0.01) activation in T1DM rats evoked significant increases in renal sympathetic nerve activity as well as mean arterial pressure. The response of group IV afferents to mechanical (18±24 versus 61±45 spikes; P<0.01) and chemical (0.3±0.4 versus 1.6±0.8 Hz; P<0.01) stimuli were significantly greater in T1DM than control. T1DM rats showed markedly increased pPKCα levels in dorsal root ganglia compared with control. These data suggest that in T1DM, abnormally muscle reflex-evoked increases in sympathetic activity mediate exaggerations in blood pressure. Further, sensitization of muscle afferents, potentially via PKC activation, may contribute to this abnormal circulatory responsiveness.
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- Rie Ishizawa
- From the Department of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., N.H., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Department of Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., W.V., J.H.M., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- From the Department of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., N.H., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.,College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan (N.H.)
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- Department of Cell Biology (G.A.I.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Department of Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., W.V., J.H.M., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- Department of Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., W.V., J.H.M., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- From the Department of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., N.H., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.,Department of Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., W.V., J.H.M., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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- From the Department of Applied Clinical Research (R.I., N.H., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.,Department of Internal Medicine (H.-K.K., W.V., J.H.M., S.A.S., M.M.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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Ducrocq GP, Kim JS, Estrada JA, Kaufman MP. ASIC1a plays a key role in evoking the metabolic component of the exercise pressor reflex in rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 318:H78-H89. [PMID: 31675256 PMCID: PMC6985806 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00565.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The role of the acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) in evoking the exercise pressor reflex is unknown, despite the fact that ASIC1a is opened by decreases in pH in the physiological range. This fact prompted us to test the hypothesis that ASIC1a plays an important role in evoking the exercise pressor reflex in decerebrated rats with freely perfused hindlimb muscles. To test this hypothesis, we measured the effect of injecting two ASIC1a blockers into the arterial supply of the triceps surae muscles on the reflex pressor responses to four maneuvers, namely 1) static contraction of the triceps surae muscles (i.e., the exercise pressor reflex), 2) calcaneal tendon stretch, 3) intra-arterial injection of lactic acid, and 4) intra-arterial injection of diprotonated phosphate. We found that the 2 ASIC1a blockers, psalmotoxin-1 (200 ng/kg) and mambalgin-1 (6.5 μg/kg), decreased the pressor responses to static contraction as well as the peak pressor responses to injection of lactic acid and diprotonated phosphate. In contrast, neither ASIC1a blocker had any effect on the pressor responses to tendon stretch. Importantly, we found that ASIC1a blockade significantly decreased the pressor response to static contraction after a latency of at least 8 s. Our results support the hypothesis that ASIC1a plays a key role in evoking the metabolic component of the exercise pressor reflex.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The role played by acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) in evoking the exercise pressor reflex remains unknown. In decerebrated rats with freely perfused femoral arteries, blocking ASIC1a with psalmotoxin-1 or mambalgin-1 significantly attenuated the pressor response to static contraction, lactic acid, and diprotonated phosphate injection but had no effect on the pressor response to stretch. We conclude that ASIC1a plays a key role in evoking the exercise pressor reflex by responding to contraction-induced metabolites, such as protons.
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- Guillaume P Ducrocq
- Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Cristina-Oliveira M, Meireles K, Spranger MD, O'Leary DS, Roschel H, Peçanha T. Clinical safety of blood flow-restricted training? A comprehensive review of altered muscle metaboreflex in cardiovascular disease during ischemic exercise. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2019; 318:H90-H109. [PMID: 31702969 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00468.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Blood flow restriction training (BFRT) is an increasingly widespread method of exercise that involves imposed restriction of blood flow to the exercising muscle. Blood flow restriction is achieved by inflating a pneumatic pressure cuff (or a tourniquet) positioned proximal to the exercising muscle before, and during, the bout of exercise (i.e., ischemic exercise). Low-intensity BFRT with resistance training promotes comparable increases in muscle mass and strength observed during high-intensity exercise without blood flow restriction. BFRT has expanded into the clinical research setting as a potential therapeutic approach to treat functionally impaired individuals, such as the elderly, and patients with orthopedic and cardiovascular disease/conditions. However, questions regarding the safety of BFRT must be fully examined and addressed before the implementation of this exercise methodology in the clinical setting. In this respect, there is a general concern that BFRT may generate abnormal reflex-mediated cardiovascular responses. Indeed, the muscle metaboreflex is an ischemia-induced, sympathoexcitatory pressor reflex originating in skeletal muscle, and the present review synthesizes evidence that BFRT may elicit abnormal cardiovascular responses resulting from increased metaboreflex activation. Importantly, abnormal cardiovascular responses are more clearly evidenced in populations with increased cardiovascular risk (e.g., elderly and individuals with cardiovascular disease). The evidence provided in the present review draws into question the cardiovascular safety of BFRT, which clearly needs to be further investigated in future studies. This information will be paramount for the consideration of BFRT exercise implementation in clinical populations.
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- Michelle Cristina-Oliveira
- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Applied Physiology and Nutrition Research Group, School of Physical Education and Sport, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sidhu SK, Weavil JC, Rossman MJ, Jessop JE, Bledsoe AD, Buys MJ, Supiano MS, Richardson RS, Amann M. Exercise Pressor Reflex Contributes to the Cardiovascular Abnormalities Characterizing: Hypertensive Humans During Exercise. Hypertension 2019; 74:1468-1475. [PMID: 31607174 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.119.13366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We investigated the impact of hypertension on circulatory responses to exercise and the role of the exercise pressor reflex in determining the cardiovascular abnormalities characterizing patients with hypertension. After a 7-day drug washout, 8 hypertensive (mean arterial pressure [MAP] 130±4 mm Hg; 65±3 years) and 8 normotensive (MAP 117±2 mm Hg; 65±2 years) individuals performed single-leg knee-extensor exercise (7 W, 15 W, 50%, 80%-Wpeak) under control conditions and with lumbar intrathecal fentanyl impairing feedback from µ-opioid receptor-sensitive leg muscle afferents. Femoral artery blood flow (QL), MAP (femoral artery), leg vascular conductance, and changes in cardiac output were continuously measured. While the increase in MAP from rest to control exercise was significantly greater in hypertension compared with normotension, the exercise-induced increase in cardiac output was comparable between groups, and QL and leg vascular conductance responses were ≈18% and ≈32% lower in the hypertensive patients (P<0.05). The blockade-induced decreases in MAP were significantly larger during exercise in hypertensive (≈11 mm Hg) compared with normotensive (≈6 mm Hg). Afferent blockade attenuated the central hemodynamic response to exercise similarly in both groups resulting in a ≈15% lower cardiac output at each workload. With no effect in normotensive, afferent blockade significantly raised the peripheral hemodynamic response to exercise in hypertensive, resulting in ≈14% and ≈23% higher QL and leg vascular conductance during exercise. Finally, QL and MAP during fentanyl-exercise in hypertensive were comparable to that of normotensive under control conditions (P>0.2). These findings suggest that exercise pressor reflex abnormalities largely account for the exaggerated MAP response and the impaired peripheral hemodynamics during exercise in hypertension.
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- Simranjit K Sidhu
- From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics (S.K.S., M.J.R., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.,Discipline of Physiology, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Australia (S.K.S.)
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VAMC Salt Lake City, UT (J.C.W., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.)
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- From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics (S.K.S., M.J.R., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Anesthesiology (J.E.J., A.D.B., M.J.B., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Anesthesiology (J.E.J., A.D.B., M.J.B., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Anesthesiology (J.E.J., A.D.B., M.J.B., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
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- From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics (S.K.S., M.J.R., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VAMC Salt Lake City, UT (J.C.W., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.)
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- From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics (S.K.S., M.J.R., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VAMC Salt Lake City, UT (J.C.W., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.)
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- From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics (S.K.S., M.J.R., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.,Department of Anesthesiology (J.E.J., A.D.B., M.J.B., M.A.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VAMC Salt Lake City, UT (J.C.W., M.S.S., R.S.R., M.A.)
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Ducrocq GP, Estrada JA, Kim JS, Kaufman MP. Blocking the transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 does not reduce the exercise pressor reflex in healthy rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2019; 317:R576-R587. [PMID: 31365302 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00174.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Controversy exists regarding the role played by transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) in evoking the exercise pressor reflex. Here, we determine the role played by TRPV1 in evoking this reflex while assessing possible confounding factors arising from TRPV1 antagonists or from the vehicle in which they were dissolved. The exercise pressor reflex was evoked in decerebrated, anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats by electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve to contract the triceps surae muscles statically. This procedure was repeated before and after injection of the TRPV1 blockers: capsazepine (100 μg/100 μL), ruthenium red (100 μg/100 μL), or iodoresiniferatoxin (IRTX; 1 μg/100 μL). We found that capsazepine decreased the exercise pressor reflex when the drug was dissolved in DMSO (-10 ± 9 mmHg; P = 0.015; n = 7). However, similar reduction was found when DMSO alone was injected (-8 ± 5 mmHg; P = 0.023; n = 5). Capsazepine, dissolved in ethanol (2 ± 6 mmHg; P = 0.49; n = 7), ruthenium red (-4 ± 12 mmHg; P = 0.41; n = 7), or IRTX (4 ± 18 mmHg; P = 0.56; n = 7), did not significantly decrease the exercise pressor reflex. In addition, we found that capsazepine and ruthenium red had "off-target" effects. Capsazepine decreased the pressor response evoked by intra-arterial injection of bradykinin (500 ng/kg; -12 ± 13 mmHg; P = 0.028; n = 9) and α-β-methylene ATP (10 μg/kg; -7 ± 8 mmHg; P = 0.019; n = 10), whereas ruthenium red decreased the ability of the muscle to produce and sustain force (-99 ± 83 g; P = 0.020; n = 7). Our data therefore suggest that TRPV1 does not play a role in evoking the exercise pressor reflex. Additionally, given their strong off-target effects, capsazepine and ruthenium red should not be used for studying the role played by TRPV1 in evoking the exercise pressor reflex.
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- Guillaume P Ducrocq
- Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Kim HK, Hotta N, Ishizawa R, Iwamoto GA, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. Exaggerated pressor and sympathetic responses to stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region and exercise pressor reflex in type 2 diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2019; 317:R270-R279. [PMID: 31091155 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00061.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The cardiovascular responses to exercise are potentiated in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the underlying mechanisms causing this abnormality remain unknown. Central command (CC) and the exercise pressor reflex (EPR) are known to contribute significantly to cardiovascular control during exercise. Thus these neural signals are viable candidates for the generation of the abnormal circulatory regulation in this disease. We hypothesized that augmentations in CC as well as EPR function contribute to the heightened cardiovascular responses during exercise in T2DM. To test this hypothesis, changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in response to electrical stimulation of mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR), a putative component of the central command pathway, and activation of the EPR, evoked by electrically induced hindlimb muscle contraction, were examined in decerebrate animals. Sprague-Dawley rats were given either a normal diet (control) or a high-fat diet (14-16 wk) in combination with two low doses (35 mg/kg week 1, 25 mg/kg week 2) of streptozotocin (T2DM). The changes in MAP and RSNA responses to MLR stimulation were significantly greater in T2DM compared with control (2,739 ± 123 vs. 1,298 ± 371 mmHg/s, 6,326 ± 1,621 vs. 1,390 ± 277%/s, respectively, P < 0.05). Similarly, pressor and sympathetic responses to activation of the EPR in diabetic animals were significantly augmented compared with control animals (436 ± 74 vs. 134 ± 44 mmHg/s, 645 ± 135 vs. 139 ± 65%/s, respectively, P < 0.05). These findings provide the first evidence that CC and the EPR may generate the exaggerated rise in sympathetic activity and blood pressure during exercise in T2DM.
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- Han-Kyul Kim
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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O'Leary DS, Senador D, Augustyniak RA. Muscle metaboreflex-induced central blood volume mobilization in heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2019; 316:H1047-H1052. [PMID: 30822120 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00805.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Underperfusion of active skeletal muscle causes metabolites to accumulate and stimulate group III and IV skeletal muscle afferents, which triggers a powerful pressor response termed the muscle metaboreflex. Muscle metaboreflex activation (MMA) during submaximal dynamic exercise in healthy individuals increases arterial pressure mainly via substantial increases in cardiac output (CO). The increases in CO occur via the combination of tachycardia and increased ventricular contractility. Importantly, MMA also elicits substantial central blood volume mobilization, which allows the ventricular responses to sustain the increases in CO. Otherwise preload would fall and the increases in CO could not be maintained. In subjects with systolic heart failure (HF), the ability to increase CO during exercise and MMA is markedly reduced, which has been attributed to impaired ventricular contractility. Whether the ability to maintain preload during MMA in HF is preserved is unknown. Using a conscious chronically instrumented canine model, we observed that MMA in HF is able to raise central blood volume similarly as in normal subjects. Therefore, the loss of the ability to raise CO during MMA in HF is not because of the loss of the ability to mobilize blood volume centrally. NEW & NOTEWORTHY In normal subjects during dynamic exercise muscle metaboreflex activation elicits large increases in cardiac output that occur via increases in heart rate, ventricular contractility, and, importantly, marked central blood volume mobilization that acts to maintain ventricular preload, thereby allowing the changes in cardiac function to maintain the increases in cardiac output. In subjects with heart failure, the ability to raise cardiac output during muscle metaboreflex activation is impaired. We investigated whether this is because of the inability to maintain ventricular preload. We found that this reflex is still able to elicit large increases in central blood volume, and therefore the limited ability to raise cardiac output likely stems from ventricular dysfunction and not the ability to maintain preload.
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- Donal S O'Leary
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine , Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine , Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine , Detroit, Michigan
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Liang N, Iwamoto GA, Downey RM, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. The Pressor Response to Concurrent Stimulation of the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region and Peripheral Sensory Afferents Is Attenuated in Normotensive but Not Hypertensive Rats. Front Physiol 2019; 10:95. [PMID: 30814955 PMCID: PMC6381028 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Central command (CC) and the exercise pressor reflex (EPR) regulate blood pressure during exercise. We previously demonstrated that experimental stimulation of the CC and EPR pathways independently contribute to the exaggerated pressor response to exercise in hypertension. It is known that CC and EPR modify one another functionally. Whether their interactive relationship is altered in hypertension, contributing to the generation of this potentiated blood pressure response, remains unknown. To address this issue, the pressor response to activation of the CC pathway with and without concurrent stimulation of the EPR pathway, and vice versa, was examined in normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats. In decerebrated, paralyzed animals, activation of the CC pathway was evoked by electrical stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR; 20–50 μA in 10-μA steps). Electrical stimulation of the sciatic nerve (SN, 3, 5, and 10 × motor threshold; MT) was used to activate hindlimb afferents known to carry EPR sensory information. In both WKY and SHR, the algebraic sum of the pressor responses to individual stimulation of the MLR and SN were greater than when both inputs were stimulated simultaneously. Although the blood pressure response to a constant level of SN stimulation was not significantly affected by concurrent MLR stimulation at variable intensities, the pressor response to a constant level of MLR simulation was significantly attenuated by concurrent SN stimulation in WKY but not in SHR. These findings suggest the interactive relationship between CC and the EPR is inhibitory in nature in both WKY and SHR. However, the neural occlusion between these central and peripheral pressor mechanisms is attenuated in hypertension.
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- Nan Liang
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.,Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.,Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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Garneau AP, Marcoux AA, Slimani S, Tremblay LE, Frenette-Cotton R, Mac-Way F, Isenring P. Physiological roles and molecular mechanisms of K + -Cl - cotransport in the mammalian kidney and cardiovascular system: where are we? J Physiol 2019; 597:1451-1465. [PMID: 30659612 DOI: 10.1113/jp276807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
In the early 80s, renal microperfusion studies led to the identification of a basolateral K+ -Cl- cotransport mechanism in the proximal tubule, thick ascending limb of Henle and collecting duct. More than ten years later, this mechanism was found to be accounted for by three different K+ -Cl- cotransporters (KCC1, KCC3 and KCC4) that are differentially distributed along the renal epithelium. Two of these isoforms (KCC1 and KCC3) were also found to be expressed in arterial walls, the myocardium and a variety of neurons. Subsequently, valuable insights have been gained into the molecular and physiological properties of the KCCs in both the mammalian kidney and cardiovascular system. There is now robust evidence indicating that KCC4 sustains distal renal acidification and that KCC3 regulates myogenic tone in resistance vessels. However, progress in understanding the functional significance of these transporters has been slow, probably because each of the KCC isoforms is not identically distributed among species and some of them share common subcellular localizations with other KCC isoforms or sizeable conductive Cl- pathways. In addition, the mechanisms underlying the process of K+ -Cl- cotransport are still ill defined. The present review focuses on the knowledge gained regarding the roles and properties of KCCs in renal and cardiovascular tissues.
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- A P Garneau
- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6.,Cardiometabolic Axis, School of Kinesiology and Physical Activity Sciences, Montreal University, 900, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, (Qc) H2X 0A9
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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- Nephrology Research Group, Department of Medicine, Laval University, 11, côte du Palais, Québec (Qc), Canada, G1R 2J6
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Dombrowski M, Mannozzi J, O'Leary DS. Neural Control of Cardiovascular Function During Exercise in Hypertension. Front Physiol 2019; 9:1829. [PMID: 30618837 PMCID: PMC6306405 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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During both static and dynamic exercise hypertensive subjects can experience robust increases in arterial pressure to such an extent that heavy exercise is often not recommended in these patients due to the dangerously high levels of blood pressure sometimes observed. Currently, the mechanisms mediating this cardiovascular dysfunction during exercise in hypertension are not fully understood. The major reflexes thought to mediate the cardiovascular responses to exercise in normotensive healthy subjects are central command, arterial baroreflex and responses to stimulation of skeletal muscle mechano-sensitive and metabo-sensitive afferents. This review will summarize our current understanding of the roles of these reflexes and their interactions in mediating the altered cardiovascular responses to exercise observed in hypertension. We conclude that much work is needed to fully understand the mechanisms mediating excessive pressor response to exercise often seen in hypertensive patients.
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- Maryetta Dombrowski
- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States
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Notay K, Klingel SL, Lee JB, Doherty CJ, Seed JD, Swiatczak M, Mutch DM, Millar PJ. TRPV1 and BDKRB2 receptor polymorphisms can influence the exercise pressor reflex. J Physiol 2018; 596:5135-5148. [PMID: 30206938 DOI: 10.1113/jp276526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS The mechanisms responsible for the high inter-individual variability in blood pressure responses to exercise remain unclear. Common genetic variants of genes related to the vascular transduction of sympathetic outflow have been investigated, but variants influencing skeletal muscle afferent feedback during exercise have not been explored. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in TRPV1 rs222747 and BDKRB2 rs1799722 receptors present in skeletal muscle were associated with differences in the magnitude of the blood pressure response to static handgrip exercise but not mental stress. The combined effects of TRPV1 rs222747 and BDKRB2 rs1799722 on blood pressure and heart rate responses during exercise were additive, and primarily found in men. Genetic differences in skeletal muscle metaboreceptors may be a risk factor for exaggerated blood pressure responses to exercise. ABSTRACT Exercise blood pressure (BP) responses demonstrate high inter-individual variability, which could relate to differences in metabolically sensitive afferent feedback from the exercising muscle. We hypothesized that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes encoding metaboreceptors present in group III/IV skeletal muscle afferents can influence the exercise pressor response. Two hundred men and women underwent measurements of continuous BP and heart rate at baseline and during 2 min of static handgrip exercise (30% maximal volitional contraction), post-exercise circulatory occlusion and mental stress (serial subtraction; internal control). Participants were genotyped for SNPs in TRPV1 (rs222747; G/C), ASIC3 (rs2288645; G/A), BDKRB2 (rs1799722; C/T), PTGER2 (rs17197; A/G) and P2RX4 (rs25644; A/G). Exercise systolic BP (19 ± 10 vs. 22 ± 10 mmHg, P = 0.03) was lower in GG versus GC/CC minor allele carriers for TRPV1 rs222747, while exercise diastolic BP (14 ± 7 vs. 17 ± 7 mmHg, P = 0.007) and heart rate (12 ± 8 vs. 15 ± 9 beats min-1 , P = 0.03) were lower in CC versus CT/TT minor allele carriers for BDKRB2 rs1799722. Individuals carrying both minor alleles for TRPV1 rs222747 and BDKRB2 rs1799722 had greater systolic (22 ± 11 vs. 17 ± 10 mmHg, P = 0.04) and diastolic (18 ± 7 vs. 14 ± 7 mmHg, P = 0.01) BP responses than those with no minor alleles; these differences were larger in men. No differences in BP or heart rate responses were detected during static handgrip with ASIC3 rs2288645, PTGER2 rs17197 or P2RX4 rs25644. None of the selected SNPs were associated with differences during mental stress. These findings demonstrate that variants in TRPV1 and BDKRB2 receptors can contribute to BP differences during static exercise in an additive manner.
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- Karambir Notay
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.,Toronto General Research Institute , Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Chant B, Bakali M, Hinton T, Burchell AE, Nightingale AK, Paton JF, Hart EC. Antihypertensive Treatment Fails to Control Blood Pressure During Exercise. Hypertension 2018; 72:102-109. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.118.11076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Benjamin Chant
- From the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, School of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience (B.C., M.B., T.H., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.)
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- From the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, School of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience (B.C., M.B., T.H., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.)
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- From the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, School of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience (B.C., M.B., T.H., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.)
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- Department of Cardiology, Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (A.E.B., A.K.N.)
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- Bristol Medical School, Translational Health Sciences (A.K.N.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (A.E.B., A.K.N.)
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- From the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, School of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience (B.C., M.B., T.H., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.)
- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Grafton, New Zealand (J.F.R.P.)
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- From the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, School of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience (B.C., M.B., T.H., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.)
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Vianna LC, Fernandes IA, Barbosa TC, Teixeira AL, Nóbrega ACL. Capsaicin-based analgesic balm attenuates the skeletal muscle metaboreflex in healthy humans. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2018; 125:362-368. [PMID: 29698108 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00038.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The exercise pressor reflex (EPR) is comprised of group III and IV skeletal muscle afferents and is one of the principal mediators of the cardiovascular response to exercise. In animals, capsaicin-based analgesic balm (CAP) attenuates the pressor response to muscle contraction, indicating the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPv1) receptor (localized on the group IV afferent neuron) as an important mediator of the EPR. However, whether these findings can be extrapolated to humans remains unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that CAP would attenuate blood pressure (BP) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) responses to isolated muscle metaboreflex activation in healthy men. MSNA (microneurography) and beat-to-beat heart hate (HR, by electrocardiography), and BP (finger photoplethysmography) were continuously measured in eight healthy males (23 ± 5 yr) at rest, during isometric handgrip exercise, and during postexercise ischemia (PEI). Trials were performed before and 30 and 60 min after the topical application of CAP (0.1%, CAPZASIN-HP) over the volar forearm of the subject's exercising arm. Isometric exercise evoked increases in mean BP (∆32 ± 4 mmHg) and MSNA (∆26 ± 5 bursts/min; ∆19 ± 5 bursts/100 heart beats). The increases in BP during handgrip were not affected by CAP, but the increase in MSNA was lower after 60 min of CAP application. During PEI, the increases in BP and MSNA were all significantly less than those before CAP (all P < 0.05). In conclusion, CAP attenuated BP and sympathetic responses evoked by PEI in humans. These data provide evidence that transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptors potentially contribute to the EPR in humans, via its metabolic component. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We found that topical application of capsaicin-based analgesic balm attenuates arterial blood pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity during isolated muscle metaboreflex activation following isometric handgrip exercise in healthy humans. These findings suggest that the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 may contribute to the exercise pressor reflex in humans via its metabolic component.
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- Lauro C Vianna
- NeuroVASQ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília , Brasilia, Federal District , Brazil
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- NeuroVASQ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília , Brasilia, Federal District , Brazil.,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University , Niterói, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington, Texas
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- NeuroVASQ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília , Brasilia, Federal District , Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University , Niterói, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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Queme LF, Ross JL, Jankowski MP. Peripheral Mechanisms of Ischemic Myalgia. Front Cell Neurosci 2017; 11:419. [PMID: 29311839 PMCID: PMC5743676 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Musculoskeletal pain due to ischemia is present in a variety of clinical conditions including peripheral vascular disease (PVD), sickle cell disease (SCD), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and even fibromyalgia (FM). The clinical features associated with deep tissue ischemia are unique because although the subjective description of pain is common to other forms of myalgia, patients with ischemic muscle pain often respond poorly to conventional analgesic therapies. Moreover, these patients also display increased cardiovascular responses to muscle contraction, which often leads to exercise intolerance or exacerbation of underlying cardiovascular conditions. This suggests that the mechanisms of myalgia development and the role of altered cardiovascular function under conditions of ischemia may be distinct compared to other injuries/diseases of the muscles. It is widely accepted that group III and IV muscle afferents play an important role in the development of pain due to ischemia. These same muscle afferents also form the sensory component of the exercise pressor reflex (EPR), which is the increase in heart rate and blood pressure (BP) experienced after muscle contraction. Studies suggest that afferent sensitization after ischemia depends on interactions between purinergic (P2X and P2Y) receptors, transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, and acid sensing ion channels (ASICs) in individual populations of peripheral sensory neurons. Specific alterations in primary afferent function through these receptor mechanisms correlate with increased pain related behaviors and altered EPRs. Recent evidence suggests that factors within the muscles during ischemic conditions including upregulation of growth factors and cytokines, and microvascular changes may be linked to the overexpression of these different receptor molecules in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) that in turn modulate pain and sympathetic reflexes. In this review article, we will discuss the peripheral mechanisms involved in the development of ischemic myalgia and the role that primary sensory neurons play in EPR modulation.
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- Luis F Queme
- Department of Anesthesia, Division of Pain Management, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Anesthesia, Division of Pain Management, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Anesthesia, Division of Pain Management, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Trinity JD, Layec G, Hart CR, Richardson RS. Sex-specific impact of aging on the blood pressure response to exercise. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2017; 314:H95-H104. [PMID: 29030342 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00505.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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An exaggerated blood pressure (BP) response to exercise has been linked to cardiovascular disease, but little is known about the impact of age and sex on this response. Therefore, this study examined the hemodynamic and skeletal muscle metabolic response to dynamic plantar flexion exercise, at 40% of maximum plantar flexion work rate, in 40 physical activity-matched young (23 ± 1 yr, n = 20) and old (73 ± 2 yr, n = 20), equally distributed, male and female subjects. Central hemodynamics and BP (finometer), popliteal artery blood flow (Doppler ultrasound), and skeletal muscle metabolism (31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy) were measured during 5 min of plantar flexion exercise. Popliteal artery blood flow and high-energy phosphate responses to exercise were not affected by age or sex, whereas aging, independent of sex, attenuated stroke volume and cardiac output responses. Systolic BP and mean arterial pressure responses were exaggerated in old women (Δ42 ± 4 and Δ28 ± 3 mmHg, respectively), with all other groups exhibiting similar increases in systolic BP (old men: Δ27 ± 8 mmHg, young men: Δ27 ± 3 mmHg, and young women: Δ22 ± 3 mmHg) and mean arterial pressure (old men: Δ15 ± 4 mmHg, young men: Δ19 ± 2 mmHg, and young women: Δ17 ± 2 mmHg). Interestingly, the exercise-induced change in systemic vascular resistance in old women (∆0.8 ± 1.0 mmHg·l-1·min-1) was augmented compared with young women and young and old men (∆-2.8 ± 0.5, ∆-1.6 ± 0.6, and ∆-3.18 ± 1.4 mmHg·l-1·min-1, respectively, P < 0.05). Thus, in combination, advancing age and female sex results in an exaggerated BP response to exercise, likely the result of a failure to reduce systemic vascular resistance. NEW & NOTEWORTHY An exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise has been linked to cardiovascular disease; however, little is known about how age and sex impact this response in healthy individuals. During dynamic exercise, older women exhibited an exaggerated blood pressure response driven by an inability to lower systemic vascular resistance.
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- Joel D Trinity
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, George E. Whalen VA Medical Center , Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, George E. Whalen VA Medical Center , Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah.,Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah
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Mitchell JH. Abnormal cardiovascular response to exercise in hypertension: contribution of neural factors. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2017; 312:R851-R863. [PMID: 28381455 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00042.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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During both dynamic (e.g., endurance) and static (e.g., strength) exercise there are exaggerated cardiovascular responses in hypertension. This includes greater increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and efferent sympathetic nerve activity than in normal controls. Two of the known neural factors that contribute to this abnormal cardiovascular response are the exercise pressor reflex (EPR) and functional sympatholysis. The EPR originates in contracting skeletal muscle and reflexly increases sympathetic efferent nerve activity to the heart and blood vessels as well as decreases parasympathetic efferent nerve activity to the heart. These changes in autonomic nerve activity cause an increase in blood pressure, heart rate, left ventricular contractility, and vasoconstriction in the arterial tree. However, arterial vessels in the contracting skeletal muscle have a markedly diminished vasoconstrictor response. The markedly diminished vasoconstriction in contracting skeletal muscle has been termed functional sympatholysis. It has been shown in hypertension that there is an enhanced EPR, including both its mechanoreflex and metaboreflex components, and an impaired functional sympatholysis. These conditions set up a positive feedback or vicious cycle situation that causes a progressively greater decrease in the blood flow to the exercising muscle. Thus these two neural mechanisms contribute significantly to the abnormal cardiovascular response to exercise in hypertension. In addition, exercise training in hypertension decreases the enhanced EPR, including both mechanoreflex and metaboreflex function, and improves the impaired functional sympatholysis. These two changes, caused by exercise training, improve the muscle blood flow to exercising muscle and cause a more normal cardiovascular response to exercise in hypertension.
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- Jere H Mitchell
- Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Spranger MD, Kaur J, Sala-Mercado JA, Krishnan AC, Abu-Hamdah R, Alvarez A, Machado TM, Augustyniak RA, O'Leary DS. Exaggerated coronary vasoconstriction limits muscle metaboreflex-induced increases in ventricular performance in hypertension. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2016; 312:H68-H79. [PMID: 27769997 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00417.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Revised: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Increases in myocardial oxygen consumption during exercise mainly occur via increases in coronary blood flow (CBF) as cardiac oxygen extraction is high even at rest. However, sympathetic coronary constrictor tone can limit increases in CBF. Increased sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) during exercise likely occurs via the action of and interaction among activation of skeletal muscle afferents, central command, and resetting of the arterial baroreflex. As SNA is heightened even at rest in subjects with hypertension (HTN), we tested whether HTN causes exaggerated coronary vasoconstriction in canines during mild treadmill exercise with muscle metaboreflex activation (MMA; elicited by reducing hindlimb blood flow by ~60%) thereby limiting increases in CBF and ventricular performance. Experiments were repeated after α1-adrenergic blockade (prazosin; 75 µg/kg) and in the same animals following induction of HTN (modified Goldblatt 2K1C model). HTN increased mean arterial pressure from 97.1 ± 2.6 to 132.1 ± 5.6 mmHg at rest and MMA-induced increases in CBF, left ventricular dP/dtmax, and cardiac output were markedly reduced to only 32 ± 13, 26 ± 11, and 28 ± 12% of the changes observed in control. In HTN, α1-adrenergic blockade restored the coronary vasodilation and increased in ventricular function to the levels observed when normotensive. We conclude that exaggerated MMA-induced increases in SNA functionally vasoconstrict the coronary vasculature impairing increases in CBF, which limits oxygen delivery and ventricular performance in HTN. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We found that metaboreflex-induced increases in coronary blood flow and ventricular contractility are attenuated in hypertension. α1-Adrenergic blockade restored these parameters toward normal levels. These findings indicate that the primary mechanism mediating impaired metaboreflex-induced increases in ventricular function in hypertension is accentuated coronary vasoconstriction.
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- Marty D Spranger
- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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Exercise training attenuates dexamethasone-induced hypertension by improving autonomic balance to the heart, sympathetic vascular modulation and skeletal muscle microcirculation. J Hypertens 2016; 34:1967-76. [DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000001032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Mizuno M, Mitchell JH, Crawford S, Huang CL, Maalouf N, Hu MC, Moe OW, Smith SA, Vongpatanasin W. High dietary phosphate intake induces hypertension and augments exercise pressor reflex function in rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2016; 311:R39-48. [PMID: 27170660 PMCID: PMC4967233 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00124.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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An increasing number of studies have linked high dietary phosphate (Pi) intake to hypertension. It is well established that the rise in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and blood pressure (BP) during physical exertion is exaggerated in many forms of hypertension, which are primarily mediated by an overactive skeletal muscle exercise pressor reflex (EPR). However, it remains unknown whether high dietary Pi intake potentiates the EPR-mediated SNA and BP response to exercise. Accordingly, we measured renal SNA (RSNA) and mean BP (MBP) in normotensive Sprague-Dawley rats fed a normal Pi diet (0.6%, n = 13) or high Pi diet (1.2%, n = 13) for 3 mo. As previously reported, we found that resting BP was significantly increased by 1.2% Pi diet in both conscious and anesthetized animals. Activation of the EPR by electrically induced hindlimb contraction triggered greater increases in ΔRSNA and ΔMBP in the 1.2% compared with 0.6% Pi group (126 ± 25 vs. 42 ± 9%; 44 ± 5 vs. 14 ± 2 mmHg, respectively, P < 0.01). Activation of the muscle mechanoreflex, a component of the EPR, by passively stretching hindlimb muscle also evoked greater increases in ΔRSNA and ΔMBP in the 1.2% compared with 0.6% Pi group (109 ± 27 vs. 24 ± 7%, 38 ± 7 vs. 8 ± 2 mmHg, respectively, P < 0.01). A similar response was produced by hindlimb intra-arterial capsaicin administration to stimulate the metaboreflex arm of the EPR. Thus, our data demonstrate a novel action of dietary Pi loading in augmenting EPR function through overactivation of both the muscle mechanoreflex and metaboreflex.
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- Masaki Mizuno
- Department of Health Care Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Nephrology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Charles and Jane Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Mineral Metabolism Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and Charles and Jane Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Mineral Metabolism Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and Charles and Jane Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Nephrology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Charles and Jane Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Hypertension Section, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Charles and Jane Pak Center of Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Barbosa TC, Vianna LC, Fernandes IA, Prodel E, Rocha HNM, Garcia VP, Rocha NG, Secher NH, Nobrega ACL. Intrathecal fentanyl abolishes the exaggerated blood pressure response to cycling in hypertensive men. J Physiol 2016; 594:715-25. [PMID: 26659384 DOI: 10.1113/jp271335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS The increase in blood pressure observed during physical activities is exaggerated in patients with hypertension, exposing them to a higher cardiovascular risk. Neural signals from the skeletal muscles appear to be overactive, resulting in this abnormal response in hypertensive patients. In the present study, we tested whether the attenuation of these neural signals in hypertensive patients could normalize their abnormal increase in blood pressure during physical activity. Attenuation of the neural signals from the leg muscles with intrathecal fentanyl injection reduced the blood pressure of hypertensive men during cycling exercise to a level comparable to that of normotensive men. Skeletal muscle afferent overactivity causes the abnormal cardiovascular response to exercise and was reverted in this experimental model, appearing as potential target for treatment. Hypertensive patients present an exaggerated increase in blood pressure and an elevated cardiovascular risk during exercise. Although controversial, human studies suggest that group III and IV skeletal muscle afferents might contribute to this abnormal response. In the present study, we investigated whether attenuation of the group III and IV muscle afferent signal of hypertensive men eliminates the exaggerated increase in blood pressure occurring during exercise. Eight hypertensive men performed two sessions of 5 min of cycling exercise at 40 W. Between sessions, the subjects were provided with a lumbar intrathecal injection of fentanyl, a μ-opioid receptor agonist, aiming to attenuate the central projection of opioid-sensitive group III and IV muscle afferent nerves. The cardiovascular response to exercise of these subjects was compared with that of six normotensive men. During cycling, the hypertensive group demonstrated an exaggerated increase in blood pressure compared to the normotensive group (mean ± SEM: +17 ± 3 vs. +8 ± 1 mmHg, respectively; P < 0.05), whereas the increase in heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output and vascular conductance was similar (P > 0.05). Fentanyl inhibited the blood pressure response to exercise in the hypertensive group (+11 ± 2 mmHg) to a level comparable to that of the normotensive group (P > 0.05). Moreover, fentanyl increased the responses of vascular conductance and stroke volume to exercise (P < 0.05), whereas the heart rate response was attenuated (P < 0.05) and the cardiac output response was maintained (P > 0.05). The results of the present study show that attenuation of the exercise pressor reflex normalizes the blood pressure response to cycling exercise in hypertensive individuals.
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- Thales C Barbosa
- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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- Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Exercise Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, RJ, Brazil
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Liang N, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Mizuno M. Exaggerated sympathetic and cardiovascular responses to stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2016; 310:H123-31. [PMID: 26545711 PMCID: PMC4796463 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00479.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/05/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The sympathetic and pressor responses to exercise are exaggerated in hypertension. However, the underlying mechanisms causing this abnormality remain to be fully elucidated. Central command, a neural drive originating in higher brain centers, is known to activate cardiovascular and locomotor control circuits concomitantly. As such, it is a viable candidate for the generation of the augmented vascular response to exercise in this disease. We hypothesized that augmentations in central command function contribute to the heightened cardiovascular response to exercise in hypertension. To test this hypothesis, changes in renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in response to electrical stimulation of mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR; 20-50 μA in 10-μA steps evoking fictive locomotion), a putative component of the central command pathway, were examined in decerebrate, paralyzed normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Tibial nerve discharge during MLR stimulation significantly increased in an intensity-dependent manner in both WKY and SHR but was not different between groups. Stimulation of the MLR evoked significantly larger increases in RSNA and MAP with increasing stimulation intensity in both groups. Importantly, the increases in sympathetic and pressor responses to this fictive locomotion were significantly greater in SHR compared with WKY across all stimulation intensities (e.g., at 50 μA, ΔRSNA: WKY 153 ± 31%, SHR 287 ± 42%; ΔMAP: WKY 87 ± 9 mmHg, SHR 139 ± 7 mmHg). These findings provide the first evidence that central command may be a critical contributor to the exaggerated rise in sympathetic activity and blood pressure during exercise in hypertension.
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- Nan Liang
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and
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Mizuno M, Mitchell JH, Smith SA. The exercise pressor reflex in hypertension. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPORTS MEDICINE 2016. [DOI: 10.7600/jpfsm.5.339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Masaki Mizuno
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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- Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Spranger MD, Krishnan AC, Levy PD, O'Leary DS, Smith SA. Blood flow restriction training and the exercise pressor reflex: a call for concern. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 309:H1440-52. [PMID: 26342064 PMCID: PMC7002872 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00208.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Blood flow restriction (BFR) training (also known as Kaatsu training) is an increasingly common practice employed during resistance exercise by athletes attempting to enhance skeletal muscle mass and strength. During BFR training, blood flow to the exercising muscle is mechanically restricted by placing flexible pressurizing cuffs around the active limb proximal to the working muscle. This maneuver results in the accumulation of metabolites (e.g., protons and lactic acid) in the muscle interstitium that increase muscle force and promote muscle growth. Therefore, the premise of BFR training is to simulate and receive the benefits of high-intensity resistance exercise while merely performing low-intensity resistance exercise. This technique has also been purported to provide health benefits to the elderly, individuals recovering from joint injuries, and patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation. Since the seminal work of Alam and Smirk in the 1930s, it has been well established that reductions in blood flow to exercising muscle engage the exercise pressor reflex (EPR), a reflex that significantly contributes to the autonomic cardiovascular response to exercise. However, the EPR and its likely contribution to the BFR-mediated cardiovascular response to exercise is glaringly missing from the scientific literature. Inasmuch as the EPR has been shown to generate exaggerated increases in sympathetic nerve activity in disease states such as hypertension (HTN), heart failure (HF), and peripheral artery disease (PAD), concerns are raised that BFR training can be used safely for the rehabilitation of patients with cardiovascular disease, as has been suggested. Abnormal BFR-induced and EPR-mediated cardiovascular complications generated during exercise could precipitate adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events (e.g., cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, stroke and sudden cardiac death). Moreover, although altered EPR function in HTN, HF, and PAD underlies our concern for the widespread implementation of BFR, use of this training mechanism may also have negative consequences in the absence of disease. That is, even normal, healthy individuals performing resistance training exercise with BFR are potentially at increased risk for deleterious cardiovascular events. This review provides a brief yet detailed overview of the mechanisms underlying the autonomic cardiovascular response to exercise with BFR. A more complete understanding of the consequences of BFR training is needed before this technique is passively explored by the layman athlete or prescribed by a health care professional.
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- Marty D Spranger
- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan;
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Mizuno M, Iwamoto GA, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA. Dynamic exercise training prevents exercise pressor reflex overactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 309:H762-70. [PMID: 26163445 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00358.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cardiovascular responses to exercise are exaggerated in hypertension. We previously demonstrated that this heightened cardiovascular response to exercise is mediated by an abnormal skeletal muscle exercise pressor reflex (EPR) with important contributions from its mechanically and chemically sensitive components. Exercise training attenuates exercise pressor reflex function in healthy subjects as well as in heart failure rats. However, whether exercise training has similar physiological benefits in hypertension remains to be elucidated. Thus we tested the hypothesis that the EPR overactivity manifest in hypertension is mitigated by exercise training. Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in response to muscle contraction, passive muscle stretch, and hindlimb intra-arterial capsaicin administration were examined in untrained normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKYUT; n = 6), exercise-trained WKY (WKYET; n = 7), untrained spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRUT; n = 8), and exercise-trained SHR (SHRET; n = 7). Baseline MAP after decerebration was significantly decreased by 3 mo of wheel running in SHRET (104 ± 9 mmHg) compared with SHRUT (125 ± 10 mmHg). As previously reported, the pressor and renal sympathetic responses to muscle contraction, stretch, and capsaicin administration were significantly higher in SHRUT than WKYUT. Exercise training significantly attenuated the enhanced contraction-induced elevations in MAP (SHRUT: 53 ± 11 mmHg; SHRET: 19 ± 3 mmHg) and RSNA (SHRUT: 145 ± 32%; SHRET: 57 ± 11%). Training produced similar attenuating effects in SHR during passive stretch and capsaicin administration. These data demonstrate that the abnormally exaggerated EPR function that develops in hypertensive rats is significantly diminished by exercise training.
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- Masaki Mizuno
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas;
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Hypertension Section, Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Laurin J, Pertici V, Dousset E, Marqueste T, Decherchi P. Group III and IV muscle afferents: Role on central motor drive and clinical implications. Neuroscience 2015; 290:543-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Revised: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Spranger MD, Kaur J, Sala-Mercado JA, Machado TM, Krishnan AC, Alvarez A, O'Leary DS. Attenuated muscle metaboreflex-induced pressor response during postexercise muscle ischemia in renovascular hypertension. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 308:R650-8. [PMID: 25632024 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00464.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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During dynamic exercise, muscle metaboreflex activation (MMA; induced via partial hindlimb ischemia) markedly increases mean arterial pressure (MAP), and MAP is sustained when the ischemia is maintained following the cessation of exercise (postexercise muscle ischemia, PEMI). We previously reported that the sustained pressor response during PEMI in normal individuals is driven by a sustained increase in cardiac output (CO) with no peripheral vasoconstriction. However, we have recently shown that the rise in CO with MMA is significantly blunted in hypertension (HTN). The mechanisms sustaining the pressor response during PEMI in HTN are unknown. In six chronically instrumented canines, hemodynamic responses were observed during rest, mild exercise (3.2 km/h), MMA, and PEMI in the same animals before and after the induction of HTN [Goldblatt two kidney, one clip (2K1C)]. In controls, MAP, CO and HR increased with MMA (+52 ± 6 mmHg, +2.1 ± 0.3 l/min, and +37 ± 7 beats per minute). After induction of HTN, MAP at rest increased from 97 ± 3 to 130 ± 4 mmHg, and the metaboreflex responses were markedly attenuated (+32 ± 5 mmHg, +0.6 ± 0.2 l/min, and +11 ± 3 bpm). During PEMI in HTN, HR and CO were not sustained, and MAP fell to normal recovery levels. We conclude that the attenuated metaboreflex-induced HR, CO, and MAP responses are not sustained during PEMI in HTN.
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- Marty D Spranger
- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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Smith SA, Leal AK, Murphy MN, Downey RM, Mizuno M. Muscle mechanoreflex overactivity in hypertension: a role for centrally-derived nitric oxide. Auton Neurosci 2015; 188:58-63. [PMID: 25630887 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2014] [Revised: 12/10/2014] [Accepted: 12/24/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The cardiovascular response to exercise is abnormally large in hypertension. Over the past decade, it has become clear that the exercise pressor reflex (a peripheral feed-back mechanism originating in skeletal muscle) contributes significantly to the generation of this hyper-responsiveness. Further, it has been determined that overactivity of the mechanically (muscle mechanoreflex) and chemically (muscle metaboreflex) sensitive components of the exercise pressor reflex underpin its dysfunction. Given the recent attention in the literature, this review focuses upon the aberrant function of the muscle mechanoreflex in this disease. Evidence supporting a role for the mechanoreflex in the pathogenesis of the exaggerated cardiovascular response to physical activity is highlighted. The peripheral and central mechanisms that may be responsible for mechanoreflex overactivity in hypertension are likewise discussed. Particular attention is given to emerging evidence implicating a role for centrally-derived nitric oxide in this process.
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- Scott A Smith
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.
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- Department of Kinesiology, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, United States
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- Department of Applied Physiology and Wellness, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Satoshi Koba
- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine
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Exaggerated increases in blood pressure during isometric muscle contraction in hypertension: role for purinergic receptors. Auton Neurosci 2014; 188:51-7. [PMID: 25577671 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Physical activity is a cornerstone therapy for the primary prevention and treatment of hypertension, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in modern societies. During exercise, heart rate and blood pressure (BP) increase in order to acutely meet the metabolic demands of the working skeletal muscle. In hypertensive adults, isometric exercise-induced increases in BP are excessive, potentially increasing the risk of an acute cardiovascular event during or after physical activity. Recently, the skeletal muscle metaboreflex has emerged as a significant contributor to the development of aberrant cardiovascular control during isometric exercise in this clinical population. Our laboratory has conducted a series of studies characterizing the skeletal muscle metaboreflex in hypertensive humans. We and others have demonstrated that hypertension is characterized by greater increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity and BP during selective activation of the metaboreflex during post-exercise muscle ischemia compared to the increases noted in healthy age-matched normotensive adults, suggesting that the skeletal muscle metaboreflex is exaggerated in human hypertension. The focus of this review is the skeletal muscle metaboreflex (i.e., the metabolic component of the exercise pressor reflex) in hypertension, with particular emphasis on the potential role of purinergic receptors in mediating the exaggerated responses to muscle metaboreflex activation.
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Koba S, Hisatome I, Watanabe T. Central command dysfunction in rats with heart failure is mediated by brain oxidative stress and normalized by exercise training. J Physiol 2014; 592:3917-31. [PMID: 24973409 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.272377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Sympathoexcitation elicited by central command, a parallel activation of the motor and autonomic neural circuits in the brain, has been shown to become exaggerated in chronic heart failure (CHF). The present study tested the hypotheses that oxidative stress in the medulla in CHF plays a role in exaggerating central command-elicited sympathoexcitation, and that exercise training in CHF suppresses central command-elicited sympathoexcitation through its antioxidant effects in the medulla. In decerebrate rats, central command was activated by electrically stimulating the mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) after neuromuscular blockade. The MLR stimulation at a current intensity greater than locomotion threshold in rats with CHF after myocardial infarction (MI) evoked larger (P < 0.05) increases in renal sympathetic nerve activity and arterial pressure than in sham-operated healthy rats (Sham) and rats with CHF that had completed longterm (8–12 weeks) exercise training (MI + TR). In the Sham and MI + TR rats, bilateral microinjection of a superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic Tempol into the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) had no effects on MLR stimulation-elicited responses. By contrast, in MI rats, Tempol treatment significantly reduced MLR stimulation-elicited responses. In a subset of MI rats, treatment with Tiron, another SOD mimetic, within the RVLM also reduced responses. Superoxide generation in the RVLM, as evaluated by dihydroethidium staining, was enhanced in MI rats compared with that in Sham and MI + TR rats. Collectively, these results support the study hypotheses. We suggest that oxidative stress in the medulla in CHF mediates central command dysfunction, and that exercise training in CHF is capable of normalizing central command dysfunction through its antioxidant effects in the medulla.
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- Satoshi Koba
- Division of Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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Mizuno M, Iwamoto GA, Vongpatanasin W, Mitchell JH, Smith SA. Exercise training improves functional sympatholysis in spontaneously hypertensive rats through a nitric oxide-dependent mechanism. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2014; 307:H242-51. [PMID: 24816260 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00103.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Functional sympatholysis is impaired in hypertensive animals and patients. Exercise training (ET) improves functional sympatholysis through a nitric oxide (NO)-dependent mechanism in normotensive rats. However, whether ET has similar physiological benefits in hypertension remains to be elucidated. Thus we tested the hypothesis that the impairment in functional sympatholysis in hypertension is reversed by ET through a NO-dependent mechanism. In untrained normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKYUT; n = 13), untrained spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRUT; n = 13), and exercise-trained SHR (SHRET; n = 6), changes in femoral vascular conductance (FVC) were examined during lumbar sympathetic nerve stimulation (1, 2.5, and 5 Hz) at rest and during muscle contraction. The magnitude of functional sympatholysis (Δ%FVC = Δ%FVC muscle contraction - Δ%FVC rest) in SHRUT was significantly lower than WKYUT (1 Hz: -2 ± 4 vs. 13 ± 3%; 2.5 Hz: 9 ± 3 vs. 21 ± 3%; and 5 Hz: 12 ± 3 vs. 26 ± 3%, respectively; P < 0.05). Three months of voluntary wheel running significantly increased maximal oxygen uptake in SHRET compared with nontrained SHRUT (78 ± 6 vs. 62 ± 4 ml·kg(-1)·min(-1), respectively; P < 0.05) and restored the magnitude of functional sympatholysis in SHRET (1 Hz: 9 ± 2%; 2.5 Hz: 20 ± 4%; and 5 Hz: 34 ± 5%). Blockade of NO synthase (NOS) by N(G)-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester attenuated functional sympatholysis in WKYUT but not SHRUT. Furthermore, NOS inhibition significantly diminished the improvements in functional sympatholysis in SHRET. These data demonstrate that impairments in functional sympatholysis are normalized via a NO mechanism by voluntary wheel running in hypertensive rats.
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- Masaki Mizuno
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Hypertension Section University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Smith SA, Downey RM, Williamson JW, Mizuno M. Autonomic dysfunction in muscular dystrophy: a theoretical framework for muscle reflex involvement. Front Physiol 2014; 5:47. [PMID: 24600397 PMCID: PMC3927082 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2013] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of genetically inherited disorders whose most prominent clinical feature is progressive degeneration of skeletal muscle. In several forms of the disease, the function of cardiac muscle is likewise affected. The primary defect in this group of diseases is caused by mutations in myocyte proteins important to cellular structure and/or performance. That being stated, a growing body of evidence suggests that the development of autonomic dysfunction may secondarily contribute to the generation of skeletal and cardio-myopathy in muscular dystrophy. Indeed, abnormalities in the regulation of both sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve activity have been reported in a number of muscular dystrophy variants. However, the mechanisms mediating this autonomic dysfunction remain relatively unknown. An autonomic reflex originating in skeletal muscle, the exercise pressor reflex, is known to contribute significantly to the control of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity when stimulated. Given the skeletal myopathy that develops with muscular dystrophy, it is logical to suggest that the function of this reflex might also be abnormal with the pathogenesis of disease. As such, it may contribute to or exacerbate the autonomic dysfunction that manifests. This possibility along with a basic description of exercise pressor reflex function in health and disease are reviewed. A better understanding of the mechanisms that possibly underlie autonomic dysfunction in muscular dystrophy may not only facilitate further research but could also lead to the identification of new therapeutic targets for the treatment of muscular dystrophy.
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- Scott A Smith
- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA ; Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
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- Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
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Greaney JL, Matthews EL, Boggs ME, Edwards DG, Duncan RL, Farquhar WB. Exaggerated exercise pressor reflex in adults with moderately elevated systolic blood pressure: role of purinergic receptors. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2014; 306:H132-41. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00575.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The neurocirculatory responses to exercise are exaggerated in hypertension, increasing cardiovascular risk, yet the mechanisms remain incompletely understood. The aim of this study was to examine the in vitro effectiveness of pyridoxal-5-phosphate as a purinergic (P2) receptor antagonist in isolated murine dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons and the in vivo contribution of P2 receptors to the neurocirculatory responses to exercise in older adults with moderately elevated systolic blood pressure (BP). In vitro, pyridoxal-5-phosphate attenuated the ATP-induced increases in [Ca2+]i (73 ± 15 vs. 11 ± 3 nM; P < 0.05). In vivo, muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA; peroneal microneurography) and arterial BP (Finometer) were assessed during exercise pressor reflex activation (static handgrip followed by postexercise ischemia; PEI) during a control trial (normal saline) and localized P2 receptor blockade (pyridoxal-5-phosphate). Compared with normotensive adults (63 ± 2 yr, 117 ± 2/70 ± 2 mmHg), adults with moderately elevated systolic BP (65 ± 1 yr, 138 ± 5/79 ± 3 mmHg) demonstrated greater increases in MSNA and BP during handgrip and PEI. Compared with the control trial, local antagonism of P2 receptors during PEI partially attenuated MSNA (39 ± 4 vs. 34 ± 5 bursts/min; P < 0.05) in adults with moderately elevated systolic BP. In conclusion, these data demonstrate pyridoxal-5-phosphate is an effective P2 receptor antagonist in isolated DRG neurons, which are of particular relevance to the exercise pressor reflex. Furthermore, these findings indicate that exercise pressor reflex function is exaggerated in older adults with moderately elevated systolic BP and further suggest a modest role of purinergic receptors in evoking the abnormally large reflex-mediated increases in sympathetic activity during exercise in this clinical population.
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- Jody L. Greaney
- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; and
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; and
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; and
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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