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O'Brien MW, Schwartz BD, Petterson JL, Courish MK, Shivgulam ME, Kimmerly DS. Nadir blood pressure responses to longer consecutive cardiac cycle sequences absent of sympathetic bursts are associated with popliteal endothelial-dependent dilation. Auton Neurosci 2024; 254:103193. [PMID: 38852226 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2024.103193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Revised: 05/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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PURPOSE The nadir pressure responses to cardiac cycles absent of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) bursts (or non-bursts) are typically reported in studies quantifying sympathetic transduction, but the information gained by studying non-bursts is unclear. We tested the hypothesis that longer sequences of non-bursts (≥8 cardiac cycles) would be associated with a greater nadir diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and that better popliteal artery function would be associated with an augmented reduction in DBP. METHODS Resting beat-by-beat DBP (via finger photoplethysmography) and common peroneal nerve MSNA (via microneurography) were recorded in 39 healthy, adults (age 23.4 ± 5.3 years; 19 females). For each cardiac cycle absent of MSNA bursts, the mean nadir DBP (ΔDBP) during the 12 cardiac cycles following were determined, and separate analyses were conducted for ≥8 or < 8 cardiac cycle sequences. Popliteal artery endothelial-dependent (via flow-mediated dilation; FMD) and endothelial-independent vasodilation (via nitroglycerin-mediated dilation; NMD) were determined. RESULTS The nadir DBP responses to sequences ≥8 cardiac cycles were larger (-1.40 ± 1.27 mmHg) than sequences <8 (-0.38 ± 0.46 mmHg; p < 0.001). In adjusting for sex and burst frequency (14 ± 8 bursts/min), larger absolute or relative FMD (p < 0.01), but not NMD (p > 0.53) was associated with an augmented nadir DBP. This overall DBP-FMD relationship was similar in sequences ≥8 (p = 0.04-0.05), but not <8 (p > 0.72). CONCLUSION The DBP responses to non-bursts, particularly longer sequences, were inversely associated with popliteal endothelial function, but not vascular smooth muscle sensitivity. This study provides insight into the information gained by quantifying the DBP responses to cardiac cycles absent of MSNA.
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; Centre de Formation Médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, Université de Sherbrooke, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Plunkett MJ, Holwerda S, Young BE, Fadel PJ, Fisher JP. Respiratory modulation of sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in health and type 2 diabetes. J Physiol 2024. [PMID: 39073892 DOI: 10.1113/jp286627] [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: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/31/2024] Open
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is often accompanied by hypertension, exaggerated blood pressure (BP) responses to sympatho-excitatory stressors, and raised cardiovascular disease risk. Appropriate respiratory-sympathetic coupling and sympathetic transduction to BP are important for short- and longer-term BP control. We tested the hypotheses that respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and its transduction to BP would be impaired in T2D and associated with higher BP and respiratory-coupled BP variability. Resting MSNA, respiration and beat-to-beat BP were recorded in 20 T2D (49.1 ± 7.4 years; mean ± SD) and 13 healthy control (46.3 ± 9.4 years) participants. MSNA and the transduction of sympathetic bursts (signal-averaging) to mean arterial pressure (MAP) were compared at low and high lung volume phases. The peak MAP response following a sympathetic burst was lower during the high lung volume than low lung volume phase in controls (P = 0.005), whereas it was unchanged with phase in T2D participants (P = 0.522). Respiratory modulation of MSNA was impaired in T2D participants, who had an attenuated reduction in burst incidence from low to the high lung volume phase, versus controls (27.8 ± 38.4% vs. 49.4 ± 24.6%, respectively; P = 0.043). The T2D participants were grouped into unimpaired respiratory modulators (burst incidence modulation median or above) or impaired respiratory modulators (below median). Impaired modulators had higher systolic BP (133 ± 14 vs. 121 ± 11 mmHg, P = 0.046), greater Traube-Hering wave amplitudes (6.3 ± 2.4 vs. 4.6 ± 1.1 mmHg; P = 0.028) and higher BP variability (MAP average real variability, 2.0 ± 0.7 vs. 1.4 ± 0.3, P = 0.033). Respiratory modulation of MSNA and sympathetic transduction to BP are altered in T2D patients and may contribute to their increased hypertension and cardiovascular risk. KEY POINTS: Respiratory-sympathetic coupling and sympathetic transduction to blood pressure (BP) contribute to short- and longer-term BP control. Our understanding of these processes in health and type 2 diabetes (T2D), a condition with high prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular risk, is incomplete. We found that respiration and sympathetic transduction to BP are coupled in healthy individuals. The mean arterial pressure response to a sympathetic burst was reduced during the high lung volume compared to the low lung volume phase. This coupling was absent in T2D. Respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is impaired in T2D, with a blunted reduction of MSNA observed during the high lung volume phase. T2D patients with impaired respiratory MSNA modulation had augmented systolic BP, respiratory-related BP excursions (Traube-Hering waves) and BP variability. Abnormal respiratory modulation of MSNA and sympathetic transduction to BP in T2D may contribute to altered blood pressure control and cardiovascular risk in this population.
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- Michael J Plunkett
- Manaaki Manawa - The Centre for Heart Research, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation, College of Education, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Manaaki Manawa - The Centre for Heart Research, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Prodel E, Souza R, Divino B, Rocha HNM, Rocha NG, Nobrega ACL. Hyperaemia during dynamic handgrip exercise is preserved in healthy young subjects after recovery from COVID-19. Exp Physiol 2024; 109:841-846. [PMID: 38460126 PMCID: PMC11140172 DOI: 10.1113/ep091656] [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: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
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We sought to investigate possible impaired hyperaemia during dynamic handgrip exercise (HGE) in young healthy individuals who had recovered from COVID-19. We tested the vascular function in individuals recovered from COVID-19 using a nitric oxide donor (i.e., sodium nitroprusside; SNP), which could revert a possible impaired endothelial function during HGE. Further, we tested whether individuals who recovered from COVID-19 would present exaggerated brachial vascular resistance under an adrenergic agonist (i.e., phenylephrine; PHE) stimuli during HGE. Participants were distributed into two groups: healthy controls (Control; men: n = 6, 30 ± 3 years, 26 ± 1 kg/m2; and women: n = 5, 25 ± 1 years, 25 ± 1 kg/m2) and subjects recovered from COVID-19 (post-COVID; men: n = 6, 29 ± 3 years, 25 ± 1 kg/m2; and women: n = 10, 32 ± 4 years, 22 ± 1 kg/m2). Participants in the post-COVID group tested positive (RT-PCR) 12-14 weeks before the protocol. Heart rate (HR), brachial blood pressure (BP), brachial blood flow (BBF) and vascular conductance (BVC) at rest were not different between groups. The HGE increased HR (Control: Δ9 ± 0.4 bpm; and post-COVID: Δ11 ± 0.4 bpm) and BP (Control: Δ6 ± 1 mmHg; and post-COVID: Δ12 ± 0.6 mmHg) in both groups. Likewise, BBF (Control: Δ632 ± 38 ml/min; and post-COVID: Δ620 ± 27 ml/min) and BVC (Control: Δ6.6 ± 0.4 ml/min/mmHg; and post-COVID: Δ6.1 ± 0.3 ml/min/mmHg) increased during HGE. SNP did not change HGE-induced hyperaemia but did decrease BP, which induced a reflex-related increase in HR. PHE infusion also did not change the HGE-induced hyperaemia but raised BP and reduced HR. In conclusion, exercise-induced hyperaemia is preserved in healthy young subjects 12-14 weeks after recovery from COVID-19 infection.
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- Eliza Prodel
- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
- Laboratory of Integrative Cardiometabology, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
- Laboratory of Integrative Cardiometabology, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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- Laboratory of Exercise Science, Department of Physiology and PharmacologyFluminense Federal UniversityNiteróiBrazil
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Nardone M, Sayegh ALC, Fan JL, Fisher JP. Does endothelial ischemic reperfusion injury augment sympathetic neurovascular transduction? Clin Auton Res 2024; 34:375-378. [PMID: 38767808 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-024-01037-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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- Massimo Nardone
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
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Shoemaker JK, Gros R. A century of exercise physiology: key concepts in neural control of the circulation. Eur J Appl Physiol 2024; 124:1323-1336. [PMID: 38441688 PMCID: PMC11055701 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-024-05451-0] [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: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Early in the twentieth century, Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945) introduced his overarching hypothesis of "homeostasis" (Cannon 1932)-the ability to sustain physiological values within a narrow range necessary for life during periods of stress. Physical exercise represents a stress in which motor, respiratory and cardiovascular systems must be integrated across a range of metabolic stress to match oxygen delivery to oxygen need at the cellular level, together with appropriate thermoregulatory control, blood pressure adjustments and energy provision. Of these, blood pressure regulation is a complex but controlled variable, being the function of cardiac output and vascular resistance (or conductance). Key in understanding blood pressure control during exercise is the coordinating role of the autonomic nervous system. A long history outlines the development of these concepts and how they are integrated within the exercise context. This review focuses on the renaissance observations and thinking generated in the first three decades of the twentieth century that opened the doorway to new concepts of inquiry in cardiovascular regulation during exercise. The concepts addressed here include the following: (1) exercise and blood pressure, (2) central command, (3) neurovascular transduction with emphasis on the sympathetic nerve activity and the vascular end organ response, and (4) tonic neurovascular integration.
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- J Kevin Shoemaker
- School of Kinesiology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada.
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
- Department of Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
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Teixeira AL, Nardone M, Fernandes IA, Millar PJ, Vianna LC. Intra- and interday reliability of sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in young, healthy adults. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2024; 136:917-927. [PMID: 38385178 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00009.2024] [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: 01/05/2024] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
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Microneurographic recordings of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and the succeeding changes in beat-to-beat blood pressure (i.e., sympathetic transduction) provide important insights into the neural control of the circulation in humans. Despite its widespread use, the reliability of this technique remains unknown. Herein, we assessed the intra- and interday test-retest reliability of signal-averaging sympathetic transduction to blood pressure. Data were analyzed from 15 (9 M/6 F) young, healthy participants who completed two baseline recordings of fibular nerve MSNA separated by 60 min (intraday). The interday reliability was obtained in a subset of participants (n = 13, 9 M/4 F) who completed a follow-up MSNA study. Signal-averaging sympathetic transduction was quantified as peak change in diastolic (DBP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) following a burst of MSNA. Analyses were also computed considering different MSNA burst sizes (quartiles of normalized MSNA) and burst patterns (singlets, couplets, triplets, and quadruplets+), as well as nonburst responses. Intraclass-correlation coefficients (ICCs) were used as the main reliability measure. Peak changes in MAP [intraday: ICC = 0.76 (0.30-0.92), P = 0.006; interday: ICC = 0.91 (0.63-0.97), P < 0.001] demonstrated very good to excellent reliability. Sympathetic transduction of MSNA burst size displayed moderate to very good reliability, though the reliability of MSNA burst pattern was poor to very good. Nonburst responses revealed poor intraday [ICC = 0.37 (-1.05 to 0.80), P = 0.21], but very good interday [ICC = 0.76 (0.18-0.93), P = 0.01] reliability. Intraday reliability measures were consistently lower than interday reliability. Similar results were obtained using DBP. Collectively, these findings provide evidence that the burst-triggering signal-averaging technique is a reliable measure of sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in young, healthy adults.NEW & NOTEWORTHY We found that signal-averaging sympathetic transduction to blood pressure displayed very good to excellent intra- and interday test-retest reliability in healthy, young adults. Reliability analyses according to muscle sympathetic burst size, burst pattern, and nonburst response were less consistent. Results were similar when using diastolic or mean arterial pressure in the transduction calculation. These findings suggest that the signal-averaging technique can be used with confidence to investigate sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in humans across time.
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- André L Teixeira
- NeuroV̇ASQ̇ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Human Neurovascular Control Laboratory, Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- NeuroV̇ASQ̇ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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Simpson LL, Stembridge M, Siebenmann C, Moore JP, Lawley JS. Mechanisms underpinning sympathoexcitation in hypoxia. J Physiol 2024. [PMID: 38533641 DOI: 10.1113/jp284579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Sympathoexcitation is a hallmark of hypoxic exposure, occurring acutely, as well as persisting in acclimatised lowland populations and with generational exposure in highland native populations of the Andean and Tibetan plateaus. The mechanisms mediating altitude sympathoexcitation are multifactorial, involving alterations in both peripheral autonomic reflexes and central neural pathways, and are dependent on the duration of exposure. Initially, hypoxia-induced sympathoexcitation appears to be an adaptive response, primarily mediated by regulatory reflex mechanisms concerned with preserving systemic and cerebral tissue O2 delivery and maintaining arterial blood pressure. However, as exposure continues, sympathoexcitation is further augmented above that observed with acute exposure, despite acclimatisation processes that restore arterial oxygen content (C a O 2 ${C_{{\mathrm{a}}{{\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{2}}}}}$ ). Under these conditions, sympathoexcitation may become maladaptive, giving rise to reduced vascular reactivity and mildly elevated blood pressure. Importantly, current evidence indicates the peripheral chemoreflex does not play a significant role in the augmentation of sympathoexcitation during altitude acclimatisation, although methodological limitations may underestimate its true contribution. Instead, processes that provide no obvious survival benefit in hypoxia appear to contribute, including elevated pulmonary arterial pressure. Nocturnal periodic breathing is also a potential mechanism contributing to altitude sympathoexcitation, although experimental studies are required. Despite recent advancements within the field, several areas remain unexplored, including the mechanisms responsible for the apparent normalisation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity during intermediate hypoxic exposures, the mechanisms accounting for persistent sympathoexcitation following descent from altitude and consideration of whether there are sex-based differences in sympathetic regulation at altitude.
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- Lydia L Simpson
- Department of Sport Science, Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK
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- School of Psychology and Sport Science, Institute of Applied Human Physiology, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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- Department of Sport Science, Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy
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Kissell CE, Young BE, Jarrard CP, Huang M, Allen DR, Okuda DT, Smith SA, Fadel PJ, Davis SL. Reduced resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in females with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2024; 83:105416. [PMID: 38244526 DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2023.105416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2024]
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BACKGROUND Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction has been well documented in this population. The sympathetic nervous system contributes to beat-to-beat blood pressure regulation primarily by baroreflex control of the peripheral vasculature which may be impaired in females with RRMS. Even at rest, attenuated sympathetic control of vasomotor tone may result in large and frequent blood pressure excursions (i.e., greater blood pressure variability). Therefore, the primary purpose of this investigation was to test the following hypotheses; (1) females with RRMS have augmented beat-to-beat blood pressure variability compared to healthy controls and (2) reduced sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity in females with RRMS is related to augmented blood pressure variability. METHODS Electrocardiogram and beat-to-beat blood pressure were continuously recorded during 8-10 min of supine rest in 26 females with clinically definite RRMS and 24 sex-, age- and BMI- matched healthy controls. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) was recorded in a subset of participants (MS, n = 15; CON, n = 14). Traditional statistical measurements of dispersions were used to index beat-to-beat blood pressure variability. Spontaneous sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity was quantified by sorting diastolic blood pressures into 3 mmHg bins and calculating MSNA burst incidence within each bin. Weighted linear regression was then used to account for the number of cardiac cycles in each bin and calculate slopes. Spontaneous cardiac baroreflex sensitivity was determined using the sequence method. RESULTS Groups had similar resting mean arterial pressure (MAP), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), MSNA burst frequency and MSNA burst incidence (All P > 0.05). The standard deviation and interquartile range of MAP, SBP and DBP were less in females with RRMS compared to healthy controls (All P < 0.05). There were no between groups differences in sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity or cardiac baroreflex sensitivity (Both P > 0.05) and baroreflex sensitivity measures were not related to any indices of blood pressure variability (Both P > 0.05). CONCLUSION These data suggest that females with RRMS have reduced beat-to-beat blood pressure variability. However, this does not appear to be related to changes in sympathetic or cardiac baroreflex sensitivity.
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- Claire E Kissell
- Department of Applied Physiology and Sport Management, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Office of Science, Medicine, and Health, American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Applied Physiology and Sport Management, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA; Department of Applied Clinical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Nardone M, Foster M, O'Brien MW, Coovadia Y, Xie S, Usselman CW, Kimmerly DS, Taylor CE, Millar PJ. Sympathetic determinants of resting blood pressure in males and females. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2024; 326:H612-H622. [PMID: 38214907 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00497.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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Discharge of postganglionic muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is related poorly to blood pressure (BP) in adults. Whether neural measurements beyond the prevailing level of MSNA can account for interindividual differences in BP remains unclear. The current study sought to evaluate the relative contributions of sympathetic-BP transduction and sympathetic baroreflex gain on resting BP in young adults. Data were analyzed from 191 (77 females) young adults (18-39 years) who underwent continuous measurement of beat-to-beat BP (finger photoplethysmography), heart rate (electrocardiography), and fibular nerve MSNA (microneurography). Linear regression analyses were computed to determine associations between sympathetic-BP transduction (signal-averaging) or sympathetic baroreflex gain (threshold technique) and resting BP, before and after controlling for age, body mass index, and MSNA burst frequency. K-mean clustering was used to explore sympathetic phenotypes of BP control and consequential influence on resting BP. Sympathetic-BP transduction was unrelated to BP in males or females (both R2 < 0.01; P > 0.67). Sympathetic baroreflex gain was positively associated with BP in males (R2 = 0.09, P < 0.01), but not in females (R2 < 0.01; P = 0.80), before and after controlling for age, body mass index, and MSNA burst frequency. K-means clustering identified a subset of participants with average resting MSNA, yet lower sympathetic-BP transduction and lower sympathetic baroreflex gain. This distinct subgroup presented with elevated BP in males (P < 0.02), but not in females (P = 0.10). Sympathetic-BP transduction is unrelated to resting BP, while the association between sympathetic baroreflex gain and resting BP in males reveals important sex differences in the sympathetic determination of resting BP.NEW & NOTEWORTHY In a sample of 191 normotensive young adults, we confirm that resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity is a poor predictor of resting blood pressure and now demonstrate that sympathetic baroreflex gain is associated with resting blood pressure in males but not females. In contrast, signal-averaged measures of sympathetic-blood pressure transduction are unrelated to resting blood pressure. These findings highlight sex differences in the neural regulation of blood pressure.
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- Massimo Nardone
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- School of Physiotherapy (Faculty of Health) and Division of Geriatric Medicine (Faculty of Medicine), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Global Management Studies, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Gimhani D, Shanks J, Pachen M, Chang JWH, Ramchandra R. Sympathetic transduction of cardiac sympathetic nerve activity in healthy, conscious sheep. J Physiol 2024; 602:619-632. [PMID: 38329227 DOI: 10.1113/jp285079] [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: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024] Open
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Sympathetic transduction is the study of how impulses of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) affect end-organ function. Recently, the transduction of resting bursts of muscle SNA (MSNA) has been investigated and shown to have a role in the maintenance of blood pressure through changes in vascular tone in humans. In the present study, we investigate whether directly recorded resting cardiac SNA (CSNA) regulates heart rate (HR), coronary blood flow (CoBF), coronary vascular conductance (CVC), cardiac output (CO) and mean arterial pressure. Instrumentation was undertaken to record CSNA and relevant vascular variables in conscious sheep. Recordings were performed at baseline, as well as after the infusion of a β-adrenoceptor blocker (propranolol) to determine the role of β-adrenergic signalling in sympathetic transduction in the heart. The results show that after every burst of CSNA, there was a significant effect of time on HR (n = 10, ∆: +2.1 ± 1.4 beats min-1 , P = 0.002) and CO (n = 8, ∆: +100 ± 150 mL min-1 , P = 0.002) was elevated, followed by an increase in CoBF (n = 9, ∆: +0.76 mL min-1 , P = 0.001) and CVC (n = 8, ∆: +0.0038 mL min-1 mmHg-1 , P = 0.0028). The changes in HR were graded depending on the size and pattern of CSNA bursts. The HR response was significantly attenuated after the infusion of propranolol. Our study is the first to explore resting sympathetic transduction in the heart, suggesting that CSNA can dynamically change HR mediated by an action on β-adrenoceptors. KEY POINTS: Sympathetic transduction is the study of how impulses of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) affect end-organ function. Previous studies have examined sympathetic transduction primarily in the skeletal muscle and shown that bursts of muscle SNA alter blood flow to skeletal muscle and mean arterial pressure, although this has not been examined in the heart. We investigated sympathetic transduction in the heart and show that, in the conscious condition, the size of bursts of SNA to the heart can result in incremental increases in heart rate and coronary blood flow mediated by β-adrenoceptors. The pattern of bursts of SNA to the heart also resulted in incremental increases in heart rate mediated by β-adrenoceptors. This is the first study to explore the transduction of bursts of SNA to the heart.
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- Dilsha Gimhani
- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Bigalke JA, Young BE, Cleveland EL, Fadel PJ, Carter JR. Aging and sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in humans: methodological and physiological considerations. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2024; 326:H148-H157. [PMID: 37921667 PMCID: PMC11213475 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00359.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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Recent reports suggest that quantification of signal-averaged sympathetic transduction is influenced by resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and burst occurrence relative to the average mean arterial pressure (MAP). Herein, we asked how these findings may influence age-related reductions in sympathetic transduction. Beat-to-beat blood pressure and MSNA were recorded during 5 min of rest in 27 younger (13 females: age, 25 ± 5 yr; BMI, 25 ± 4 kg/m2) and 26 older (15 females: age, 59 ± 5 yr; BMI, 26 ± 4 kg/m2) healthy adults. All MSNA bursts were signal averaged together. Beat-to-beat MAP values were then split into low (T1), middle (T2), and high (T3) tertiles, and signal-averaged transduction was calculated within each tertile. Resting MSNA was higher in older adults and MAP was similar between groups. Older adults exhibited blunted overall MAP transduction (younger, Δ1.5 ± 0.6 vs. older, Δ0.9 ± 0.7 mmHg; P = 0.005), which was irrespective of relation to prevailing MAP. A greater proportion of bursts occurred above the average MAP in older adults (P < 0.001), and a larger proportion of these bursts were associated with depressor responses (P = 0.005). Nonetheless, assessment of bursts above the average MAP associated with pressor responses revealed similar age-associated reductions in transduction (younger, Δ2.6 ± 1.6 vs. older, Δ1.7 ± 0.8 mmHg; P = 0.016). These findings indicate an age-related increase in burst occurrence above the average resting MAP, which alone does not explain blunted transduction, thereby supporting the physiological underpinnings of age-related decrements in sympathetic transduction to blood pressure.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The current study demonstrated that aging is associated with a greater prevalence of sympathetic bursts occurring above the average blood pressure, which offers both methodologically and physiologically relevant information regarding aging and sympathetic control of blood pressure. These data support age-related reductions in sympathetic transduction via a reduced pressor response to sympathetic bursts irrespective of the prevailing absolute blood pressure value, along with increases in sympathetic outflow necessary to maintain blood pressure.
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- Jeremy A Bigalke
- Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
- Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
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Stephens BY, Young BE, Nandadeva D, Skow RJ, Greaney JL, Brothers RM, Fadel PJ. Sympathetic transduction at rest and during cold pressor test in young healthy non-Hispanic Black and White women. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2023; 325:R682-R691. [PMID: 37781734 PMCID: PMC11178294 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00073.2023] [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: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
Abstract
Non-Hispanic Black (BL) individuals have the highest prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with all other racial/ethnic groups. Previous work focused on racial disparities in sympathetic control and blood pressure (BP) regulation between young BL and White (WH) adults, have mainly included men. Herein, we hypothesized that BL women would exhibit augmented resting sympathetic vascular transduction and greater sympathetic and BP reactivity to cold pressor test (CPT) compared with WH women. Twenty-eight young healthy women (BL: n = 14, 22 [Formula: see text] 4 yr; WH: n = 14, 22 [Formula: see text] 4 yr) participated. Beat-to-beat BP (Finometer), common femoral artery blood flow (duplex Doppler ultrasound), and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA; microneurography) were continuously recorded. In a subset (BL n = 10, WH n = 11), MSNA and BP were recorded at rest and during a 2-min CPT. Resting sympathetic vascular transduction was quantified as changes in leg vascular conductance (LVC) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) following spontaneous bursts of MSNA using signal averaging. Sympathetic and BP reactivity were quantified as changes in MSNA and MAP during the last minute of CPT. There were no differences in nadir LVC following resting MSNA bursts between BL (-8.70 ± 3.43%) and WH women (-7.30 ± 3.74%; P = 0.394). Likewise, peak increases in MAP following MSNA bursts were not different between groups (BL: +2.80 ± 1.42 mmHg; vs. WH: +2.99 ± 1.15 mmHg; P = 0.683). During CPT, increases in MSNA and MAP were also not different between BL and WH women, with similar transduction estimates between groups (ΔMAP/ΔMSNA; P = 0.182). These findings indicate that young, healthy BL women do not exhibit exaggerated sympathetic transduction or augmented sympathetic and BP reactivity during CPT.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study was the first to comprehensively investigate sympathetic vascular transduction and sympathetic and BP reactivity during a cold pressor test in young, healthy BL women. We demonstrated that young BL women do not exhibit exaggerated resting sympathetic vascular transduction and do not have augmented sympathetic or BP reactivity during cold stress compared with their WH counterparts. Collectively, these findings suggest that alterations in sympathetic transduction and reactivity are not apparent in young, healthy BL women.
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- Brandi Y Stephens
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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D'Souza AW, Hissen SL, Manabe K, Takeda R, Washio T, Coombs GB, Sanchez B, Fu Q, Shoemaker JK. Age- and sex-related differences in sympathetic vascular transduction and neurohemodynamic balance in humans. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2023; 325:H917-H932. [PMID: 37594483 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00301.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and the ensuing vasoconstriction are pivotal determinants of beat-by-beat blood pressure regulation. Although age and sex impact blood pressure regulation, how these factors affect the central and peripheral arcs of the baroreflex remains unclear. In 27 young [25 (SD 3) yr] males (YM; n = 14) and females (YF; n = 13) and 23 older [71 (SD 5) yr] males (OM; n = 11) and females (OF; n = 12), femoral artery blood flow, blood pressure, and MSNA were recorded for 10 min of supine rest. Sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity (i.e., central arc) was quantified as the relationship between diastolic blood pressure and MSNA burst incidence. Signal averaging was used to determine sympathetic vascular transduction into leg vascular conductance (LVC) for 12 cardiac cycles following MSNA bursts (i.e., peripheral arc). Older adults demonstrated attenuated sympathetic transduction into LVC (both P < 0.001) following MSNA bursts, and smaller increases in sympathetic transduction as a function of MSNA burst size and firing pattern compared with young adults (range, P = 0.004-0.032). YM (r2 = 0.36; P = 0.032) and OM (r2 = 0.51; P = 0.014) exhibited an inverse relationship between the central and peripheral arcs of the baroreflex, whereas females did not (YF, r2 = 0.03, P = 0.621; OF, r2 = 0.06, P = 0.445). MSNA burst incidence was inversely related to sympathetic transduction in YM and OF (range, P = 0.03-0.046) but not in YF or OM (range, P = 0.360-0.603). These data indicate that age is associated with attenuated sympathetic vascular transduction, whereas age- and sex-specific changes are present in the relationship between the central and peripheral arcs of the baroreflex regulation of blood pressure.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Sympathetic vascular transduction is attenuated in older compared with young adults, regardless of biological sex. Males, but not females (regardless of age), demonstrate an inverse relationship between central (sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity) and peripheral (sympathetic vascular transduction) components of the baroreflex arc. Young males and older females exhibit an inverse relationship between resting sympathetic outflow and sympathetic vascular transduction. Our results indicate that age and sex exert independent and interactive effects on sympathetic vascular transduction and sympathetic neurohemodynamic balance in humans.
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- Andrew W D'Souza
- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Laboratory of Neuromuscular Biomechanics, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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O'Brien MW, Nardone M, Foster M, Coovadia Y, Usselman CW, Taylor CE, Millar PJ, Kimmerly DS. Higher sympathetic transduction is independently associated with greater very short-term diastolic blood pressure variability in young healthy males and females. Clin Auton Res 2023; 33:529-532. [PMID: 37243873 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-023-00949-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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- Myles W O'Brien
- School of Physiotherapy (Faculty of Health) and Department of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
- Geriatric Medicine Research, Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, NS, Canada.
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Young BE, Padilla J, Shoemaker JK, Curry TB, Fadel PJ, Limberg JK. Sympathetic transduction to blood pressure during euglycemic-hyperinsulinemia in young healthy adults: role of burst amplitude. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2023; 324:R536-R546. [PMID: 36802950 PMCID: PMC10027119 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00162.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
Abstract
Insulin acts centrally to stimulate sympathetic vasoconstrictor outflow to skeletal muscle and peripherally to promote vasodilation. Given these divergent actions, the "net effect" of insulin on the transduction of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) into vasoconstriction and thus, blood pressure (BP) remains unclear. We hypothesized that sympathetic transduction to BP would be attenuated during hyperinsulinemia compared with baseline. In 22 young healthy adults, MSNA (microneurography), and beat-to-beat BP (Finometer or arterial catheter) were continuously recorded, and signal-averaging was performed to quantify the mean arterial pressure (MAP) and total vascular conductance (TVC; Modelflow) responses following spontaneous bursts of MSNA at baseline and during a euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp. Hyperinsulinemia significantly increased MSNA burst frequency and mean burst amplitude (baseline: 46 ± 6 au; insulin: 65 ± 16 au, P < 0.001) but did not alter MAP. The peak MAP (baseline: 3.2 ± 1.5 mmHg; insulin: 3.0 ± 1.9 mmHg, P = 0.67) and nadir TVC (P = 0.45) responses following all MSNA bursts were not different between conditions indicating preserved sympathetic transduction. However, when MSNA bursts were segregated into quartiles based on their amplitudes at baseline and compared with similar amplitude bursts during hyperinsulinemia, the peak MAP and TVC responses were blunted (e.g., largest burst quartile: MAP, baseline: Δ4.4 ± 1.7 mmHg; hyperinsulinemia: Δ3.0 ± 0.8 mmHg, P = 0.02). Notably, ∼15% of bursts during hyperinsulinemia exceeded the size of any burst at baseline, yet the MAP/TVC responses to these larger bursts (MAP, Δ4.9 ± 1.4 mmHg) did not differ from the largest baseline bursts (P = 0.47). These findings indicate that increases in MSNA burst amplitude contribute to the overall maintenance of sympathetic transduction during hyperinsulinemia.
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- Benjamin E Young
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
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- Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Simpson LL, Hansen AB, Moralez G, Amin SB, Hofstaetter F, Gasho C, Stembridge M, Dawkins TG, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Lawley JS, Hearon CM. Adrenergic control of skeletal muscle blood flow during chronic hypoxia in healthy males. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2023; 324:R457-R469. [PMID: 36717165 PMCID: PMC10026988 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00230.2022] [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: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Sympathetic transduction is reduced following chronic high-altitude (HA) exposure; however, vascular α-adrenergic signaling, the primary mechanism mediating sympathetic vasoconstriction at sea level (SL), has not been examined at HA. In nine male lowlanders, we measured forearm blood flow (Doppler ultrasound) and calculated changes in vascular conductance (ΔFVC) during 1) incremental intra-arterial infusion of phenylephrine to assess α1-adrenergic receptor responsiveness and 2) combined intra-arterial infusion of β-adrenergic and α-adrenergic antagonists propranolol and phentolamine (α-β-blockade) to assess adrenergic vascular restraint at rest and during exercise-induced sympathoexcitation (cycling; 60% peak power). Experiments were performed near SL (344 m) and after 3 wk at HA (4,383 m). HA abolished the vasoconstrictor response to low-dose phenylephrine (ΔFVC: SL: -34 ± 15%, vs. HA; +3 ± 18%; P < 0.0001) and markedly attenuated the response to medium (ΔFVC: SL: -45 ± 18% vs. HA: -28 ± 11%; P = 0.009) and high (ΔFVC: SL: -47 ± 20%, vs. HA: -35 ± 20%; P = 0.041) doses. Blockade of β-adrenergic receptors alone had no effect on resting FVC (P = 0.500) and combined α-β-blockade induced a similar vasodilatory response at SL and HA (P = 0.580). Forearm vasoconstriction during cycling was not different at SL and HA (P = 0.999). Interestingly, cycling-induced forearm vasoconstriction was attenuated by α-β-blockade at SL (ΔFVC: Control: -27 ± 128 vs. α-β-blockade: +19 ± 23%; P = 0.0004), but unaffected at HA (ΔFVC: Control: -20 ± 22 vs. α-β-blockade: -23 ± 11%; P = 0.999). Our results indicate that in healthy males, altitude acclimatization attenuates α1-adrenergic receptor responsiveness; however, resting α-adrenergic restraint remains intact, due to concurrent resting sympathoexcitation. Furthermore, forearm vasoconstrictor responses to cycling are preserved, although the contribution of adrenergic receptors is diminished, indicating a reliance on alternative vasoconstrictor mechanisms.
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- Lydia L Simpson
- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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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 Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
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Holwerda SW, Gangwish ME, Luehrs RE, Nuckols VR, Thyfault JP, Miles JM, Pierce GL. Concomitantly higher resting arterial blood pressure and transduction of sympathetic neural activity in human obesity without hypertension. J Hypertens 2023; 41:326-335. [PMID: 36583358 PMCID: PMC9812452 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000003335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Central (abdominal) obesity is associated with elevated adrenergic activity and arterial blood pressure (BP). Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that transduction of spontaneous muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) to BP, that is, sympathetic transduction, is augmented in abdominal obesity (increased waist circumference) and positively related to prevailing BP. METHODS Young/middle-aged obese (32 ± 7 years; BMI: 36 ± 5 kg/m2, n = 14) and nonobese (29 ± 10 years; BMI: 23 ± 4 kg/m2, n = 14) without hypertension (24-h ambulatory average BP < 130/80 mmHg) were included. MSNA (microneurography) and beat-to-beat BP (finger cuff) were measured continuously and the increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP) during 15 cardiac cycles following MSNA bursts of different patterns (single, multiples) and amplitude (quartiles) was signal-averaged over a 10 min baseline period. RESULTS MSNA burst frequency was not significantly higher in obese vs. nonobese (21 ± 3 vs. 17 ± 3 bursts/min, P = 0.34). However, resting supine BP was significantly higher in obese compared with nonobese (systolic: 127 ± 3 vs. 114 ± 3; diastolic: 76 ± 2 vs. 64 ± 1 mmHg, both P < 0.01). Importantly, obese showed greater increases in MAP following multiple MSNA bursts (P = 0.02) and MSNA bursts of higher amplitude (P = 0.02), but not single MSNA bursts (P = 0.24), compared with nonobese when adjusting for MSNA burst frequency. The increase in MAP following higher amplitude bursts among all participants was associated with higher resting supine systolic (R = 0.48; P = 0.01) and diastolic (R = 0.48; P = 0.01) BP when controlling for MSNA burst frequency, but not when also controlling for waist circumference (P > 0.05). In contrast, sympathetic transduction was not correlated with 24-h ambulatory average BP. CONCLUSION Sympathetic transduction to BP is augmented in abdominal obesity and positively related to higher resting supine BP but not 24-h ambulatory average BP.
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- Seth W. Holwerda
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- KU Diabetes Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- Kansas Center for Metabolism and Obesity, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Kinesiology, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
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- Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- KU Diabetes Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- Kansas Center for Metabolism and Obesity, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Smith D, Miller R, Lee JB. Can vagus nerve recordings shed light on autonomic dysfunction in spinal cord injury? J Physiol 2022; 600:4973-4975. [PMID: 36254576 DOI: 10.1113/jp283815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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- Donovan Smith
- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cardiac Sciences, Clinical Neurosciences, Biomedical Engineering, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, RESTORE.network, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cardiac Sciences, Clinical Neurosciences, Biomedical Engineering, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, RESTORE.network, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cardiac Sciences, Clinical Neurosciences, Biomedical Engineering, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, RESTORE.network, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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O'Brien MW, Schwartz BD, Petterson JL, Kimmerly DS. Comparison of signal-averaging and regression approaches to analyzing sympathetic transduction. Clin Auton Res 2022; 32:299-302. [PMID: 35727399 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-022-00874-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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PURPOSE Spontaneous sympathetic transduction reflects the vascular and/or pressor responses to bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). Separately, signal-averaging and regression-based approaches have been implemented to quantify resting sympathetic transduction. It is unknown whether the outcomes of these analytical approaches provide (dis)similar information, which is imperative for between-study comparisons and the amalgamation of results for synthesis of multiple studies (i.e., meta-analyses). We explored the diastolic blood pressure (DBP) responses to spontaneous bursts of MSNA between these two methods of analysis. METHODS Resting beat-by-beat DBP (via finger photoplethysmography) and common peroneal nerve MSNA (via microneurography) were recorded in 52 healthy, normotensive adults (age 38 ± 20 years; 19 females). For the signal-averaged method, transduction was quantified as the mean peak increase in DBP (ΔDBP) during the 12 cardiac cycles following each MSNA burst. In addition, DBP was regressed to a moving two-cardiac-cycle window of normalized relative burst height (mmHg/relative %) to provide the regression-based transduction outcome. RESULTS The signal-averaged (1.2 ± 0.7 mmHg) and regression-based approaches (0.009 ± 0.016 mmHg/%) were unrelated (ρ = 0.03, p = 0.86). Adding to the discrepancy, only the signal-averaging approach demonstrated a lower transduction in middle-aged-older males versus younger males. CONCLUSIONS The decision of which method to use when calculating sympathetic transduction influences study outcomes, with the two most common methods of determining transduction being unrelated. There are challenges of making sweeping conclusions across studies if different analysis strategies are implemented. An understanding of when to use each method is needed to adopt a harmonized approach to quantifying sympathetic transduction.
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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O’Brien MW, Mekary S, Kimmerly DS. Aging, cardiorespiratory fitness and sympathetic transduction. Aging (Albany NY) 2022; 14:4189-4190. [PMID: 35580001 PMCID: PMC9186775 DOI: 10.18632/aging.204091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Myles W. O’Brien
- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Sugimoto H, Hamaoka T, Murai H, Hirai T, Mukai Y, Kusayama T, Takashima S, Kato T, Takata S, Usui S, Sakata K, Kawashiri M, Takamura M. Relationships between muscle sympathetic nerve activity and novel indices of arterial stiffness using single oscillometric cuff in patients with hypertension. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15270. [PMID: 35587702 PMCID: PMC9118049 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023] Open
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The arterial velocity pulse index (AVI) and arterial pressure-volume index (API) have been proposed as new arterial stiffness indices that can be measured using an oscillometric cuff. Sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) contributes to arterial stiffness via increasing vascular smooth muscle tone. However, the associations between SNA and the AVI or API are not understood. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships between muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and the AVI or API in healthy individuals and patients with hypertension (HT). Forty healthy individuals (40.1 ± 15.2 years, 8 females) (healthy group) and 40 patients with HT (60.2 ± 13.6, 18 females) (HT group) were included in this study. The AVI, API, MSNA, beat-by-beat blood pressure, and heart rate were recorded simultaneously. The AVI and API were higher in the HT group than in the healthy group (AVI, 26.1 ± 7.6 vs. 16.5 ± 4.0, p < 0.001; API, 31.2 ± 8.6 vs. 25.5 ± 7.2, p = 0.002). MSNA in the HT group was also higher than in the healthy group (p < 0.001). MSNA was correlated with the AVI, but not with the API, in both the healthy group (R = 0.52, p = 0.001) and HT group (R = 0.57, p < 0.001). MSNA was independently correlated with the AVI in multivariate analysis (ß = 0.34, p = 0.001). In conclusion, AVI, obtained by a simple and less user-dependent method, was related to the MSNA in healthy individuals and patients with HT.
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- Hiroyuki Sugimoto
- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
- Penn State Heart and Vascular InstitutePennsylvania State University College of MedicineHersheyPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
- Kanazawa Municipal HospitalKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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- Department of Cardiovascular MedicineKanazawa University Graduate School of Medical SciencesKanazawaJapan
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Olver TD, Badrov MB, Allen MD, Coverdale NS, Shoemaker JK. Acute changes in forearm vascular compliance during transient sympatho-excitation. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15256. [PMID: 35439367 PMCID: PMC9017978 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023] Open
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The study of vascular regulation often omits important information about the elastic properties of arteries under conditions of pulsatile flow. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), vascular bed compliance, and peripheral blood flow responses in humans. We hypothesized that increases in MSNA would correlate with reductions in vascular compliance, and that changes in compliance would correspond with changes in peripheral blood flow during sympatho-excitation. MSNA (microneurography), blood pressure (Finopres), and brachial artery blood flow (Doppler ultrasound), were monitored in six healthy males at baseline and during the last 15 s of voluntary end-inspiratory, expiratory apneas and 5 min of static handgrip exercise (SHG; 20% maximum voluntary contraction) and 3 min of post-exercise circulatory occlusion (SHG + PECO; measured in the non-exercising arm). A lumped Windkessel model was employed to examine vascular bed compliance. During apnea, indices of MSNA were inversely related with vascular compliance, and reductions in compliance correlated with decreased brachial blood flow rate. During SHG, despite increased MSNA, compliance also increased, but was unrelated to increases in blood flow. Neither during SHG nor PECO did indices of MSNA correlate with forearm vascular compliance nor did vascular compliance correlate with brachial flow. However, during PECO, a linear combination of blood pressure and total MSNA was correlated with vascular compliance. These data indicate the elastic components of the forearm vasculature are regulated by adrenergic and myogenic mechanisms during sympatho-excitation, but in a reflex-dependent manner.
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- T. Dylan Olver
- Biomedical SciencesWestern College of Veterinary MedicineUniversity of SaskatchewanSaskatoonSaskatchewanCanada
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- Division of CardiologyDepartment of MedicineUniversity Health Network and Sinai HealthUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationSchool of MedicineQueen's UniversityKingstonOntarioCanada
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- School of Kinesiology and Health StudiesQueen’s UniversityKingstonOntarioCanada
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- Neurovascular Research LaboratorySchool of KinesiologyThe University of Western OntarioLondonOntarioCanada
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O'Brien MW, Petterson JL, Kimmerly DS. Impact of sampling duration on spontaneous sympathetic transduction. Clin Auton Res 2022; 32:155-158. [PMID: 35294981 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-022-00861-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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Coovadia Y, Adler TE, Martin-Arrowsmith PW, Usselman CW. Sex differences in sympathetic neuro-vascular and neuro-hemodynamic relationships during the cold pressor test. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2022; 322:R411-R420. [PMID: 35293259 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00223.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) affects vascular resistance differently in women and men. However, whether this sex difference persists during pronounced increases in MSNA remains unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine sex differences in neurovascular transduction during cold pressor test (CPT)-mediated sympatho-excitation. Integrated peroneal MSNA (microneurography) was measured at rest and during a 3-minute CPT in young healthy women (n=11) and men (n=10). Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was measured beat-by-beat (Finometer) and superficial femoral artery blood flow was measured using duplex ultrasound. Femoral vascular resistance (FVR) was quantified as MAP/femoral blood flow (mmHg/mL/min). Baseline MSNA was similar between women and men (14±9 vs 15±9 bursts/100hb, respectively; P=0.83), whereas MAP was lower (86±7 vs 92±4 mmHg; P=0.047), and FVR was greater in women than men (0.54±0.16 vs 0.36±0.15 mmHg/mL/min; P=0.02). CPT-induced increases in MSNA were similar between the sexes (+19±11 vs +26±14 bursts/100hb; P=0.26) while increases in MAP (+7±3 vs +10±3mmHg; P=0.03) and FVR (+3.2±18.6 vs +26.8±12.8%; P<0.01) were smaller in women than men. Within men, CPT- induced increases in MSNA predicted increases in MAP (R2=0.51, P=0.02) and FVR (R2=0.49, P=0.02). However, MSNA did not predict MAP (R2=0.11, P=0.35) or FVR (R2=0.07, P=0.46) in women. Our findings demonstrate that men experience robust CPT-induced MAP responses that are driven by both neuro-vascular (MSNA-FVR) and neuro-hemodynamic (MSNA-MAP) coupling. These relationships were not observed in women, indicating that even during pronounced increases in sympathetic outflow, MSNA is not predictive of vascular nor blood pressure outcomes in young healthy women.
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- Yasmine Coovadia
- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Exercise Metabolism and 6 Nutrition Research Lab, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Holwerda SW. Crossing the intersection of human hypertension and adrenergic vasoconstriction using innovative methods. J Hum Hypertens 2022; 36:1-2. [PMID: 34453102 DOI: 10.1038/s41371-021-00571-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- Seth W Holwerda
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
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Petterson JL, McPhee BN, Wu Y, O'Brien MW. Does COVID-19 influence the sympathetic regulation of blood pressure? J Physiol 2021; 599:4951-4953. [PMID: 34628672 PMCID: PMC8661664 DOI: 10.1113/jp282362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Jennifer L Petterson
- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Nardone M, Katerberg C, Incognito AV, Teixeira AL, Vianna LC, Millar PJ. Blood pressure oscillations impact signal-averaged sympathetic transduction of blood pressure: implications for the association with resting sympathetic outflow. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021; 321:H798-H806. [PMID: 34506224 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00422.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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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Signal-averaged sympathetic transduction of blood pressure (BP) is inversely related to resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) burst frequency in healthy cohorts. Whether this represents a physiological compensatory adaptation or a methodological limitation, remains unclear. The current analysis aimed to determine the contribution of methodological limitations by evaluating the dependency of MSNA transduction at different levels of absolute BP. Thirty-six healthy participants (27 ± 7 yr, 9 females) underwent resting measures of beat-to-beat heart rate, BP, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). Tertiles of mean arterial pressure (MAP) were computed for each participant to identify cardiac cycles occurring below, around, and above the MAP operating pressure (OP). Changes in hemodynamic variables were computed across 15 cardiac cycles within each MAP tertile to quantify sympathetic transduction. MAP increased irrespective of sympathetic activity when initiated below the OP, but with MSNA bursts provoking larger rises (3.0 ± 0.9 vs. 2.1 ± 0.7 mmHg; P < 0.01). MAP decreased irrespective of sympathetic activity when initiated above the OP, but with MSNA bursts attenuating the drop (-1.3 ± 1.1 vs. -3.1 ± 1.2 mmHg; P < 0.01). In participants with low versus high resting MSNA (12 ± 4 vs. 32 ± 10 bursts/min), sympathetic transduction of MAP was not different when initiated by bursts below (3.2 ± 1.0 vs. 2.8 ± 0.9 mmHg; P = 0.26) and above the OP (-1.0 ± 1.3 vs. -1.6 ± 0.8 mmHg; P = 0.08); however, low resting MSNA was associated with a smaller proportion of MSNA bursts firing above the OP (15 ± 5 vs. 22 ± 5%; P < 0.01). The present analyses demonstrate that the signal-averaging technique for calculating sympathetic transduction of BP is influenced by the timing of an MSNA burst relative to cyclic oscillations in BP.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The current signal-averaging technique for calculating sympathetic transduction of blood pressure does not consider the arterial pressure at which each muscle sympathetic burst occurs. A burst firing when mean arterial pressure is above the operating pressure was associated with a decrease in blood pressure. Thus, individuals with higher muscle sympathetic nerve activity demonstrate a reduced sympathetic transduction owing to the weighted contribution of more sympathetic bursts at higher levels of arterial pressure.
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- Massimo Nardone
- 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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- NeuroV̇ASQ̇-Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil
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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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Steele AR, Skow RJ, Fraser GM, Berthelsen LF, Steinback CD. Sympathetic neurovascular transduction following acute hypoxia. Clin Auton Res 2021; 31:755-765. [PMID: 34528146 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-021-00824-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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PURPOSE Following an acute exposure to hypoxia, sympathetic nerve activity remains elevated. However, this elevated sympathetic nerve activity does not elicit a parallel increase in vascular resistance suggesting a blunted sympathetic signaling [i.e. blunted sympathetic neurovascular transduction (sNVT)]. Therefore, we sought to quantify spontaneous sympathetic bursts and related changes in total peripheral resistance following hypoxic exposure. We hypothesized that following hypoxia sNVT would be blunted. METHODS Nine healthy participants (n = 6 men; mean age 25 ± 2 years) were recruited. We collected data on muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) using microneurography and beat-by-beat total peripheral resistance (TPR) via finger photoplethysmography at baseline, during acute hypoxia and during two periods of recovery (recovery period 1, 0-10 min post hypoxia; recovery period 2, 10-20 min post hypoxia). MSNA burst sequences (i.e. singlets, doublets, triplets and quads+) were identified and coupled to changes in TPR over 15 cardiac cycles as an index of sNVT for burst sequences. A sNVT slope for each participant was calculated from the slope of the relationship between TPR plotted against normalized burst amplitude. RESULTS The sNVT slope was blunted during hypoxia [Δ 0.0044 ± 0.0014 (mmHg/L/min)/(a.u.)], but unchanged following termination of hypoxia [recovery 1, Δ 0.031 ± 0.0019 (mmHg/L/min)/(a.u.); recovery 2, Δ 0.0038 ± 0.0014 (mmHg/L/min)/(a.u.) compared to baseline (Δ 0.038 ± 0.0015 (L/min/mmHg)/(a.u.)] (main effect of group p = 0.012). CONCLUSIONS Contrary to our hypothesis, we have demonstrated that systemic sNVT is unchanged following hypoxia in young healthy adults.
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- Andrew R Steele
- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, , University of Alberta, 1-059D Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E1
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, , University of Alberta, 1-059D Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E1
- Women and Children's Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, , University of Alberta, 1-059D Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E1
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, , University of Alberta, 1-059D Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E1.
- Women and Children's Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
- Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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Holwerda SW. Flattening the sympathetic-vascular transduction curve. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2021; 321:R482-R483. [PMID: 34378407 PMCID: PMC8579908 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00191.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Seth W Holwerda
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Nardone M, Incognito AV, Kathia MM, Omazic LJ, Lee JB, Teixeira AL, Xie S, Vianna LC, Millar PJ. Signal-averaged resting sympathetic transduction of blood pressure: is it time to account for prevailing muscle sympathetic burst frequency? Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2021; 321:R484-R494. [PMID: 34287075 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00131.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Calculating the blood pressure (BP) response to a burst of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), termed sympathetic transduction, may be influenced by an individual's resting burst frequency. We examined the relationships between sympathetic transduction and MSNA in 107 healthy males and females and developed a normalized sympathetic transduction metric to incorporate resting MSNA. Burst-triggered signal-averaging was used to calculate the peak diastolic BP response following each MSNA burst (sympathetic transduction of BP) and following incorporation of MSNA burst cluster patterns and amplitudes (sympathetic transduction slope). MSNA burst frequency was negatively correlated with sympathetic transduction of BP (r=-0.42; P<0.01) and the sympathetic transduction slope (r=-0.66; P<0.01), independent of sex. MSNA burst amplitude was unrelated to sympathetic transduction of BP in males (r=0.04; P=0.78), but positively correlated in females (r=0.44; P<0.01) and with the sympathetic transduction slope in all participants (r=0.42; P<0.01). To control for MSNA, the linear regression slope of the log-log relationship between sympathetic transduction and MSNA burst frequency was used as a correction exponent. In sub-analysis of males (38±10 vs. 14±4bursts/min) and females (28±5 vs. 12±4bursts/min) with high vs. low MSNA, sympathetic transduction of BP and sympathetic transduction slope were lower in participants with high MSNA (all P<0.05). In contrast, normalized sympathetic transduction of BP and normalized sympathetic transduction slope were similar in males and females with high vs. low MSNA (all P>0.22). We propose that incorporating MSNA burst frequency into the calculation of sympathetic transduction will allow comparisons between participants with varying levels of resting MSNA.
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- Massimo Nardone
- 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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- Global Management Studies, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- NeuroVASQ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasilia, Brazil
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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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Hansen AB, Moralez G, Amin SB, Simspon LL, Hofstaetter F, Anholm JD, Gasho C, Stembridge M, Dawkins TG, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Villafuerte F, Romero SA, Hearon CM, Lawley JS. Global REACH 2018: the adaptive phenotype to life with chronic mountain sickness and polycythaemia. J Physiol 2021; 599:4021-4044. [PMID: 34245004 DOI: 10.1113/jp281730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Humans suffering from polycythaemia undergo multiple circulatory adaptations including changes in blood rheology and structural and functional vascular adaptations to maintain normal blood pressure and vascular shear stresses, despite high blood viscosity. During exercise, several circulatory adaptations are observed, especially involving adrenergic and non-adrenergic mechanisms within non-active and active skeletal muscle to maintain exercise capacity, which is not observed in animal models. Despite profound circulatory stress, i.e. polycythaemia, several adaptations can occur to maintain exercise capacity, therefore making early identification of the disease difficult without overt symptomology. Pharmacological treatment of the background heightened sympathetic activity may impair the adaptive sympathetic response needed to match local oxygen delivery to active skeletal muscle oxygen demand and therefore inadvertently impair exercise capacity. ABSTRACT Excessive haematocrit and blood viscosity can increase blood pressure, cardiac work and reduce aerobic capacity. However, past clinical investigations have demonstrated that certain human high-altitude populations suffering from excessive erythrocytosis, Andeans with chronic mountain sickness, appear to have phenotypically adapted to life with polycythaemia, as their exercise capacity is comparable to healthy Andeans and even with sea-level inhabitants residing at high altitude. By studying this unique population, which has adapted through natural selection, this study aimed to describe how humans can adapt to life with polycythaemia. Experimental studies included Andeans with (n = 19) and without (n = 17) chronic mountain sickness, documenting exercise capacity and characterizing the transport of oxygen through blood rheology, including haemoglobin mass, blood and plasma volume and blood viscosity, cardiac output, blood pressure and changes in total and local vascular resistances through pharmacological dissection of α-adrenergic signalling pathways within non-active and active skeletal muscle. At rest, Andeans with chronic mountain sickness had a substantial plasma volume contraction, which alongside a higher red blood cell volume, caused an increase in blood viscosity yet similar total blood volume. Moreover, both morphological and functional alterations in the periphery normalized vascular shear stress and blood pressure despite high sympathetic nerve activity. During exercise, blood pressure, cardiac work and global oxygen delivery increased similar to healthy Andeans but were sustained by modifications in both non-active and active skeletal muscle vascular function. These findings highlight widespread physiological adaptations that can occur in response to polycythaemia, which allow the maintenance of exercise capacity.
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- Alexander B Hansen
- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK
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- Physical Activity and Diabetes Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Comparada/Fisiología del Transporte de Oxígeno, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.,Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Performance Physiology and Prevention, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Katayama K, Dominelli PB, Foster GE, Kipp S, Leahy MG, Ishida K, Sheel AW. Respiratory modulation of sympathetic vasomotor outflow during graded leg cycling. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2021; 131:858-867. [PMID: 34197231 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00118.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Respiratory modulation of sympathetic vasomotor outflow to skeletal muscles (muscle sympathetic nerve activity; MSNA) occurs in resting humans. Specifically, MSNA is highest at end-expiration and lowest at end-inspiration during quiet, resting breathing. We tested the hypothesis that within-breath modulation of MSNA would be amplified during graded leg cycling. Thirteen (n = 3 females) healthy young (age: 25.2 ± 4.7 yr) individuals completed all testing. MSNA (right median nerve) was measured at rest (baseline) and during semirecumbent cycle exercise at 40%, 60%, and 80% of maximal workload (Wmax). MSNA burst frequency (BF) was 20.0 ± 4.0 bursts/min at baseline and was not different during exercise at 40%Wmax (21.3 ± 3.7 bursts/min; P = 0.292). Thereafter, MSNA BF increased significantly compared with baseline (60%Wmax: 31.6 ± 5.8 bursts/min; P < 0.001, 80%Wmax: 44.7 ± 5.3 bursts/min; P < 0.001). At baseline and all exercise intensities, MSNA BF was lowest at end-inspiration and greatest at mid-to-end expiration. The within-breath change in MSNA BF (ΔMSNA BF; end-expiration minus end-inspiration) gradually increased from baseline to 60%Wmax leg cycling, but no further increase appeared at 80%Wmax exercise. Our results indicate that within-breath modulation of MSNA is amplified from baseline to moderate intensity during dynamic exercise in young healthy individuals, and that no further potentiation occurs at higher exercise intensities. Our findings provide an important extension of our understanding of respiratory influences on sympathetic vasomotor control.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Within-breath modulation of sympathetic vasomotor outflow to skeletal muscle (muscle sympathetic nerve activity; MSNA) occurs in spontaneously breathing humans at rest. It is unknown if respiratory modulation persists during dynamic whole body exercise. We found that MSNA burst frequency was lowest at end-inspiration and highest at mid-to-end expiration during rest and graded leg cycling. Respiratory modulation of sympathetic vasomotor outflow remains intact and is amplified during dynamic whole body exercise.
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- Keisho Katayama
- Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness and Sports, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness and Sports, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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O'Brien MW, Ramsay DJ, O'Neill CD, Petterson JL, Dogra S, Mekary S, Kimmerly DS. Aerobic fitness is inversely associated with neurohemodynamic transduction and blood pressure variability in older adults. GeroScience 2021; 43:2737-2748. [PMID: 34056679 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-021-00389-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Higher aerobic fitness is independently associated with better cardiovascular health in older adults. The transduction of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) into mean arterial pressure (MAP) responses provides important insight regarding beat-by-beat neural circulatory control. Aerobic fitness is negatively associated with peak MAP responses to spontaneous MSNA in young males. Whether this relationship exists in older adults is known. We tested the hypothesis that aerobic fitness was inversely related to sympathetic neurohemodynamic transduction and blood pressure variability (BPV) in older adults. Relative peak oxygen consumption (V̇O2peak, indirect calorimetry) was assessed in 22 older adults (13 males, 65 ± 5 years, 36.3 ± 11.5 ml/kg/min). Peroneal MSNA (microneurography) and arterial pressure (finger photoplethysmography) were recorded during ≥ 10-min of rest. BPV was assessed using the average real variability index. MAP was tracked for 12 cardiac cycles following heartbeats associated with MSNA bursts (i.e., peak ΔMAP). Peak ΔMAP responses (0.9 ± 0.6 mmHg) were negatively associated (all, P < 0.04) with resting burst frequency (30 ± 11 bursts/min; R = -0.47) and burst incidence (54 ± 22 bursts/100 heartbeats; R = -0.51), but positively associated with BPV (ρ = 0.47). V̇O2peak was inversely related to the pressor responses to spontaneous bursts (R = -0.47, P = 0.03) and BPV (ρ = -0.54, P = 0.01), positively related to burst incidence (R = 0.42, P = 0.05), but unrelated to MSNA burst frequency (P = 0.20). The V̇O2peak-BPV relationship remained after controlling for burst frequency, peak ΔMAP, age, and sex. Lower V̇O2peak was associated with augmented neurohemodynamic transduction and BPV in older adults. These negative hemodynamic outcomes highlight the importance of higher aerobic fitness with ageing for optimal cardiovascular health.
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Exercise Physiology and Cardiovascular Health Lab, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,School of Kinesiology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada.,Health and Human Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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Tymko MM, Berthelsen LF, Skow RJ, Steele AR, Fraser GM, Steinback CD. Assessing static and dynamic sympathetic transduction using microneurography. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2021; 130:1626-1634. [PMID: 33792401 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00032.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The relationship between sympathetic nerve activity and the vasculature has been of great interest due to its potential role in various cardiovascular-related diseases. This relationship, termed "sympathetic transduction," has been quantified using several different laboratory and analytical techniques. The most common method is to assess the association between relative changes in muscle sympathetic nerve activity, measured via microneurography, and physiological outcomes (e.g., blood pressure, total peripheral resistance, blood flow, etc.) in response to a sympathetic stressor (e.g., exercise, cold stress, orthostatic stress). This approach, however, comes with its own caveats. For instance, elevations in blood pressure and heart rate during a sympathetic stressor can have an independent impact on muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Another assessment of sympathetic transduction was developed by Wallin and Nerhed in 1982, where alterations in blood pressure and heart rate were assessed immediately following bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest. This approach has since been characterized and further innovated by others, including the breakdown of consecutive burst sequences (e.g., singlet, doublet, triplet, and quadruplet), and burst height (quartile analysis) on specific vascular outcomes (e.g., blood pressure, blood flow, vascular resistance). The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the literature that has assessed sympathetic transduction using microneurography and various sympathetic stressors (static sympathetic transduction) and using the same or similar approach established by Wallin and Nerhed at rest (dynamic neurovascular transduction). Herein, we discuss the overlapping literature between these two methodologies and highlight the key physiological questions that remain.
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- Michael M Tymko
- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- The Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Lab, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Floras JS. From Brain to Blood Vessel: Insights From Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Recordings: Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture 2020. Hypertension 2021; 77:1456-1468. [PMID: 33775112 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.16490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Multiunit recordings of postganglionic sympathetic outflow to muscle yield otherwise imperceptible insights into sympathetic neural modulation of human vascular resistance and blood pressure. This Corcoran Lecture will illustrate the utility of microneurography to investigate neurogenic cardiovascular regulation; review data concerning muscle sympathetic nerve activity of women and men with normal and high blood pressure; explore 2 concepts, central upregulation of muscle sympathetic outflow and cortical autonomic neuroplasticity; present sleep apnea as an imperfect model of neurogenic hypertension; and expose the paradox of sympathetic excitation without hypertension. In awake healthy normotensive individuals, resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity increases with age, sleep fragmentation, and obstructive apnea. Its magnitude is not signaled by heart rate. Age-related changes are nonlinear and differ by sex. In men, sympathetic nerve activity increases with age but without relation to their blood pressure, whereas in women, both rise concordantly after age 40. Mean values for muscle sympathetic nerve activity burst incidence are consistently higher in cohorts with hypertension than in matched normotensives, yet women's sympathetic nerve traffic can increase 3-fold between ages 30 and 70 without causing hypertension. Thus, increased sympathetic nerve activity may be necessary but is insufficient for primary hypertension. Moreover, its inhibition does not consistently decrease blood pressure. Despite a half-century of microneurographic research, large gaps remain in our understanding of the content of the sympathetic broadcast from brain to blood vessel and its specific individual consequences for circulatory regulation and cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic risk.
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- John S Floras
- Sinai Health and University Health Network Division of Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, and the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Sabino-Carvalho JL, Falquetto B, Takakura AC, Vianna LC. Baroreflex dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: integration of central and peripheral mechanisms. J Neurophysiol 2021; 125:1425-1439. [PMID: 33625931 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00548.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The incidence of Parkinson's disease (PD) is increasing worldwide. Although the PD hallmark is the motor impairments, nonmotor dysfunctions are now becoming more recognized. Recently, studies have suggested that baroreflex dysfunction is one of the underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular dysregulation observed in patients with PD. However, the large body of literature on baroreflex function in PD is unclear. The baroreflex system plays a major role in the autonomic, and ultimately blood pressure and heart rate, adjustments that accompany acute cardiovascular stressors on a daily basis. Therefore, impaired baroreflex function (i.e., decreased sensitivity or gain) can lead to altered neural cardiovascular responses. Since PD affects parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system and both are orchestrated by the baroreflex system, understanding of this crucial mechanism in PD is necessary. In the present review, we summarize the potential altered central and peripheral mechanisms affecting the feedback-controlled loops that comprise the reflex arc in patients with PD. Major factors including arterial stiffness, reduced number of C1 and activation of non-C1 neurons, presence of central α-synuclein aggregation, cardiac sympathetic denervation, attenuated muscle sympathetic nerve activity, and lower norepinephrine release could compromise baroreflex function in PD. Results from patients with PD and from animal models of PD provide the reader with a clearer picture of baroreflex function in this clinical condition. By doing so, our intent is to stimulate future studies to evaluate several unanswered questions in this research area.
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- Jeann L Sabino-Carvalho
- NeuroV̇ASQ̇-Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- NeuroV̇ASQ̇-Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.,Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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O'Brien MW, Petterson JL, Kimmerly DS. An open-source program to analyze spontaneous sympathetic neurohemodynamic transduction. J Neurophysiol 2021; 125:972-976. [PMID: 33596745 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00002.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The sympathetic nervous system is important for the beat-by-beat regulation of arterial blood pressure and the control of blood flow to various organs. Microneurographic recordings of pulse-synchronous muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) are used by numerous laboratories worldwide. The transduction of hemodynamic and vascular responses elicited by spontaneous bursts of MSNA provides novel, mechanistic insight into sympathetic neural control of the circulation. Although some of these laboratories have developed in-house software programs to analyze these sympathetic transduction responses, they are not openly available and most require higher level programming skills and/or costly platforms. In the present paper, we present an open-source, Microsoft Excel-based analysis program designed to examine the pressor and/or vascular responses to spontaneous resting bursts of MSNA, including across longer, continuous MSNA burst sequences, as well as following heartbeats not associated with MSNA bursts. An Excel template with embedded formulas is provided. Detailed written and video-recorded instructions are provided to help facilitate the user and promote its implementation among the research community. Open science activities such as the dissemination of analytical programs and instructions may assist other laboratories in their pursuit to answer novel and impactful research questions regarding sympathetic neural control strategies in human health and disease.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The pressor responses to spontaneous bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity provide important information regarding sympathetic regulation of the circulation. Many laboratories worldwide quantify sympathetic neurohemodynamic transduction using in-house, customized software requiring high-level programming skills and/or costly computer programs. To overcome these barriers, this study presents a simple, open-source, Microsoft Excel-based analysis program along with video instructions to assist researchers without the necessary resources to quantify sympathetic neurohemodynamic transduction.
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Steele AR, Berthelsen LF, Fraser GM, Phillips DB, Fuhr DP, Wong EYL, Stickland MK, Steinback CD. Blunted sympathetic neurovascular transduction is associated to the severity of obstructive sleep apnea. Clin Auton Res 2021; 31:443-451. [DOI: 10.1007/s10286-021-00784-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Nardone M, Incognito AV, Teixeira AL, Cacoilo JA, Vianna LC, Millar PJ. Effects of muscle sympathetic burst size and burst pattern on time-to-peak sympathetic transduction. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2021; 46:790-796. [PMID: 33428519 DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2020-0721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The current study evaluated the influence of resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) burst size and firing pattern on time-to-peak sympathetic transduction in 36 young healthy men and women. Participants underwent a 5-10 min resting baseline with beat-to-beat measures of heart rate, mean arterial pressure (MAP), and MSNA (microneurography). Cardiac output and total vascular conductance were calculated using the Modelflow algorithm. Sympathetic transduction was quantified using the burst-triggered signal averaging technique to examine the changes in MAP, cardiac output, and total vascular conductance for 15 cardiac cycles after each MSNA burst or non-burst. A stepwise increase in the peak MAP (i.e., sympathetic transduction) was observed throughout all quartiles of normalized MSNA burst area (quartile 1 (Q1): 1.7 ± 1.3 mm Hg; Q2: 2.1 ± 1.3 mm Hg; Q3: 2.6 ± 1.4 mm Hg; Q4: 3.5 ± 1.4 mm Hg; P < 0.01). The largest quartile of normalized MSNA burst area demonstrated faster time-to-peak MAP responses (5.7 ± 2.5 s) than both Q1 (10.1 ± 3.9 s, P < 0.01) and Q2 (9.3 ± 4.1 s, P < 0.01), as well as, faster time-to-peak cardiac output and time-to-nadir total vascular conductance compared with Q1 and Q2 (All P < 0.05). Larger clusters of sympathetic bursts (i.e., triplets and ≥ quadruplets) did not have increased time-to-peak transduction compared with singlets and doublet bursts across all MSNA quartiles. These results highlight intraindividual variability in the time-course of sympathetic transduction and reveal an intrinsic property of larger sympathetic bursts to increase time-to-peak sympathetic transduction in humans. Novelty: Muscle sympathetic burst size can modulate time-to-peak sympathetic transduction in young healthy men and women. These observations appear independent of the pattern of sympathetic firing.
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- Massimo Nardone
- 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, Canada
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- NeurȯVAṠQ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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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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Young BE, Greaney JL, Keller DM, Fadel PJ. Sympathetic transduction in humans: recent advances and methodological considerations. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021; 320:H942-H953. [PMID: 33416453 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00926.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Ever since their origin more than one half-century ago, microneurographic recordings of sympathetic nerve activity have significantly advanced our understanding of the generation and regulation of central sympathetic outflow in human health and disease. For example, it is now appreciated that a myriad of disease states exhibit chronic sympathetic overactivity, a significant predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although microneurographic recordings allow for the direct quantification of sympathetic outflow, they alone do not provide information with respect to the ensuing sympathetically mediated vasoconstriction and blood pressure (BP) response. Therefore, the study of vascular and/or BP responses to sympathetic outflow (i.e., sympathetic transduction) has now emerged as an area of growing interest within the field of neural cardiovascular control in human health and disease. To date, studies have primarily examined sympathetic transduction under two distinct paradigms: when reflexively evoking sympatho-excitation through the induction of a laboratory stressor (i.e., sympathetic transduction during stress) and/or following spontaneous bursts of sympathetic outflow occurring under resting conditions (i.e., sympathetic transduction at rest). The purpose of this brief review is to highlight how our physiological understanding of sympathetic transduction has been advanced by these studies and to evaluate the primary analytical techniques developed to study sympathetic transduction in humans. We also discuss the framework by which the assessment of sympathetic transduction during stress reflects a fundamentally different process relative to sympathetic transduction at rest and why findings from investigations using these different techniques should be interpreted as such and not necessarily be considered one and the same.
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- Benjamin E Young
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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Watso JC, Huang M, Moralez G, Cramer MN, Hendrix JM, Cimino FA, Belval LN, Hinojosa‐Laborde C, Crandall CG. Low dose ketamine reduces pain perception and blood pressure, but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity, responses during a cold pressor test. J Physiol 2020; 599:67-81. [DOI: 10.1113/jp280706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Joseph C. Watso
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
- Department of Applied Clinical Research University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
- Department of Applied Clinical Research University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
- Department of Anesthesiology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX USA
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O'Brien MW, Ramsay D, Johnston W, Kimmerly DS. Aerobic fitness and sympathetic responses to spontaneous muscle sympathetic nerve activity in young males. Clin Auton Res 2020; 31:253-261. [PMID: 33034876 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-020-00734-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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PURPOSE Lower aerobic fitness increases the risk of developing hypertension. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is important for the beat-by-beat regulation of blood pressure. Whether the cardiovascular consequences of lower aerobic fitness are due to augmented transduction of MSNA into vascular responses is unclear. We tested the hypothesis that aerobic fitness is inversely related to peak increases in total peripheral resistance (TPR) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in response to spontaneous MSNA bursts in young males. METHODS Relative peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak, indirect calorimetry) was assessed in 18 young males (23 ± 3 years; 41 ± 8 ml/kg/min). MSNA (microneurography), cardiac intervals (electrocardiogram) and arterial pressure (finger photoplethysmography) were recorded continuously during supine rest. Stroke volume and cardiac output (CO) were estimated via the ModelFlow method. TPR was calculated as MAP/CO. Changes in TPR and MAP were tracked for 12 cardiac cycles following heartbeats associated with or without spontaneous bursts of MSNA. RESULTS Overall, aerobic fitness was inversely correlated to the peak ΔTPR (0.8 ± 0.7 mmHg/l/min; R = - 0.61, P = 0.007) and ΔMAP (2.3 ± 0.8 mmHg; R = - 0.69, P < 0.001), but not with the peak ΔCO (0.2 ± 0.1 l/min; P = 0.50), MSNA burst frequency (14 ± 5 bursts/min; P = 0.43) or MSNA relative burst amplitude (65 ± 12%; P = 0.13). Heartbeats without an associated burst of MSNA did not increase TPR, MAP or CO. CONCLUSION Although unrelated to traditional MSNA characteristics, aerobic fitness was inversely associated with spontaneous sympathetic neurovascular transduction in young males. This may be a potential mechanism by which aerobic fitness modulates the regulation of arterial blood pressure through the sympathetic nervous system.
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- Myles W O'Brien
- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Autonomic Cardiovascular Control and Exercise Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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Berthelsen LF, Fraser GM, Simpson LL, Vanden Berg ER, Busch SA, Steele AR, Meah VL, Lawley JS, Figueroa-Mujíca RJ, Vizcardo-Galindo G, Villafuerte F, Gasho C, Willie CK, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Stembridge M, Moore JP, Steinback CD. Highs and lows of sympathetic neurocardiovascular transduction: influence of altitude acclimatization and adaptation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 319:H1240-H1252. [PMID: 32986967 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00364.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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High-altitude (>2,500 m) exposure results in increased muscle sympathetic nervous activity (MSNA) in acclimatizing lowlanders. However, little is known about how altitude affects MSNA in indigenous high-altitude populations. Additionally, the relationship between MSNA and blood pressure regulation (i.e., neurovascular transduction) at high-altitude is unclear. We sought to determine 1) how high-altitude effects neurocardiovascular transduction and 2) whether differences exist in neurocardiovascular transduction between low- and high-altitude populations. Measurements of MSNA (microneurography), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP; finger photoplethysmography), and heart rate (electrocardiogram) were collected in 1) lowlanders (n = 14) at low (344 m) and high altitude (5,050 m), 2) Sherpa highlanders (n = 8; 5,050 m), and 3) Andean (with and without excessive erythrocytosis) highlanders (n = 15; 4,300 m). Cardiovascular responses to MSNA burst sequences (i.e., singlet, couplet, triplet, and quadruplet) were quantified using custom software (coded in MATLAB, v.2015b). Slopes were generated for each individual based on peak responses and normalized total MSNA. High altitude reduced neurocardiovascular transduction in lowlanders (MAP slope: high altitude, 0.0075 ± 0.0060 vs. low altitude, 0.0134 ± 0.080; P = 0.03). Transduction was elevated in Sherpa (MAP slope, 0.012 ± 0.007) compared with Andeans (0.003 ± 0.002, P = 0.001). MAP transduction was not statistically different between acclimatizing lowlanders and Sherpa (MAP slope, P = 0.08) or Andeans (MAP slope, P = 0.07). When resting MSNA is accounted for (ANCOVA), transduction was inversely related to basal MSNA (bursts/minute) independent of population (RRI, r = 0.578 P < 0.001; MAP, r = -0.627, P < 0.0001). Our results demonstrate that transduction is blunted in individuals with higher basal MSNA, suggesting that blunted neurocardiovascular transduction is a physiological adaptation to elevated MSNA rather than an effect or adaptation specific to chronic hypoxic exposure.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study has identified that sympathetically mediated blood pressure regulation is reduced following ascent to high-altitude. Additionally, we show that high altitude Andean natives have reduced blood pressure responsiveness to sympathetic nervous activity (SNA) compared with Nepalese Sherpa. However, basal sympathetic activity is inversely related to the magnitude of SNA-mediated fluctuations in blood pressure regardless of population or condition. These data set a foundation to explore more precise mechanisms of blood pressure control under conditions of persistent sympathetic activation and hypoxia.
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- Lindsey F Berthelsen
- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Sport Science, Division of Physiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Comparada, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas y Fisiologicas, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Comparada, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas y Fisiologicas, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Comparada, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas y Fisiologicas, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
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- Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.,Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
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- Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
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- Cardiff Centre for Exercise and Health, Cardiff School of Sport and Health, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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Dillon GA, Lichter ZS, Alexander LM, Vianna LC, Wang J, Fadel PJ, Greaney JL. Reproducibility of the neurocardiovascular responses to common laboratory-based sympathoexcitatory stimuli in young adults. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2020; 129:1203-1213. [PMID: 32940559 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00210.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The magnitude of blood pressure (BP) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) responses to laboratory stressors is commonly used to compare neurocardiovascular responsiveness between groups and conditions. However, no studies have rigorously examined the reproducibility of BP and MSNA responsiveness. Here, we assess the within-visit reproducibility of BP (finger photoplethysmography) and MSNA (microneurography) responses to isometric handgrip (HG) and postexercise ischemia (PEI) in young healthy adults (n = 30). In a subset (n = 21), we also examined the between-visit reproducibility of responsiveness to HG, PEI, and the cold pressor test (CPT). Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were used as a primary reproducibility measure (e.g., ICC >0.75 is considered very good). Within a visit, the increase in mean arterial pressure during HG [ICC = 0.85 (0.69-0.93); P < 0.001] and PEI [ICC = 0.85 (0.69-0.93); P < 0.001] demonstrated very good reproducibility. Furthermore, the between-visit reproducibility of the pressor response to HG [ICC = 0.85 (0.62-0.94); P < 0.001], PEI [ICC = 0.84 (CI = 0.58-0.94); P < 0.001], and the CPT [ICC = 0.89 (0.72-0.95) P < 0.001]) were also very good. However, there was greater variability in both the within- [HG: ICC = 0.58 (-0.22-0.85), P = 0.001; PEI: ICC = 0.33 (-0.24-0.69), P = 0.042] and between-visit reproducibility of MSNA responsiveness [HG: ICC = 0.87 (0.53-0.96), P = 0.001; PEI: ICC = 0.24 (-0.62-0.78), P = 0.27; CPT: ICC = 0.77 (0.29-0.93), P = 0.007]. The magnitude of the BP response to several standard laboratory stimuli was very good, whereas the variability of the MSNA response to these perturbations was generally less consistent, particularly during PEI. These data provide novel insight for both study design and data interpretation when comparing neurocardiovascular responsiveness between different conditions, groups, or studies, as well as before and after interventions/treatments.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The magnitude of the increases in blood pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in response to sympathoexcitatory stimuli such as static handgrip, postexercise ischemia, and the cold pressor test are commonly used to assess neurocardiovascular responsiveness. However, limited studies have comprehensively examined the reproducibility of these responses. We demonstrate that the reproducibility of the pressor response to these perturbations was very good within an individual, whereas the reproducibility of the MSNA response was less consistent.
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- Gabrielle A Dillon
- Noll Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- Noll Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- Noll Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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- NeuroV̇ASQ̇ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- College of Nursing, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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- Noll Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.,Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
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Hissen SL, Taylor CE. Sex differences in vascular transduction of sympathetic nerve activity. Clin Auton Res 2020; 30:381-392. [PMID: 32865664 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-020-00722-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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PURPOSE Sympathetic vasoconstriction plays a major role in the beat-to-beat control of blood pressure. To be effective and thus avoid dangerously high or low blood pressures, this mechanism relies upon transduction of sympathetic nerve activity at the level of the vasculature. However, recent evidence suggests that considerable variability exists in beat-to-beat vascular transduction, particularly between the sexes. METHODS We reviewed the methods available for quantifying beat-to-beat transduction of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and explored the recent evidence for sex differences in vascular transduction. We paid specific attention to relationships between vascular transduction and factors such as resting levels of sympathetic nerve activity and baroreflex sensitivity. RESULTS There are two dominant methods now available for the quantification of beat-to-beat transduction of muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest. Whilst there is some evidence to suggest that young females exhibit lower levels of vascular transduction, results vary depending on the method used and the direction of change in MSNA. Evidence suggests that compensatory relationships may exist between key components of neurovascular control, such as vascular transduction and resting levels of MSNA. Also consistent is the presence of such relationships in young males but not young females. CONCLUSION The lack of significant relationships in young females may reflect the influence of vasodilator mechanisms that counteract sympathetic vasoconstriction. The assessment of vascular transduction following MSNA bursts and non-bursts in males and females, both young and older, may help to gain a mechanistic understanding of the prevalence of hypotensive and hypertensive disorders across the lifespan.
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- Sarah L Hissen
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, Sydney, NSW, 2751, Australia.
- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
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Coovadia Y, Adler TE, Steinback CD, Fraser GM, Usselman CW. Sex differences in dynamic blood pressure regulation: beat-by-beat responses to muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 319:H531-H538. [PMID: 32734818 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00245.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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It has been suggested that sex differences in acute blood pressure fluctuations occur during the periods of time between bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that men experience more dynamic changes in mean arterial pressure (Finometer MIDI) than women during acute sympathoinhibition (i.e., slow breathing) in which bursts of sympathetic activity occur more infrequently than at rest. We tested healthy women (n = 9) and men (n = 9) of similar age (22 ± 2 vs. 23 ± 3 yr, P = 0.6). Custom software was used to calculate beat-by-beat changes in blood pressure following sympathetic burst and nonburst sequences (recorded using microneurography) during 10 min of supine rest and a 15-min bout of slow breathing. During slow breathing following nonburst sequences, women demonstrated smaller overall reductions in mean arterial pressure compared with men over the subsequent 15 cardiac cycles (P < 0.01). In addition, following a burst of sympathetic activity, women experienced greater overall increases in mean arterial pressure compared with men over the following 15 cardiac cycles (P < 0.01). Despite these differences, the peak and nadir changes in arterial pressure following burst and nonburst sequences were not different between the sexes (P = 0.45 and P = 0.48, burst and nonburst sequences, respectively). As such, these data suggest that women respond to a burst of sympathetic activity with more sustained increases in blood pressure than men, coupled with improved maintenance of blood pressure during acute periods of sympathetic quiescence. In other words, these findings suggest that men rely more on frequent bursts of sympathetic activity to acutely regulate arterial pressure than women.NEW & NOTEWORTHY We demonstrate that during acute sympathoinhibition, women demonstrate more sustained increases in blood pressure following sympathetic bursts of activity than men. Likewise, during prolonged sympathetic quiescence, blood pressure is less labile in women than men. This suggests that lower overall blood pressure in young women may not be mediated by smaller beat-by-beat changes in blood pressure in response to sympathetic outflow but may instead be mediated by a lower frequency of sympathetic bursts.
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- Yasmine Coovadia
- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Neurovascular Health Laboratory, Program for Pregnancy and Postpartum Health, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Women and Children's Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Takeda R, Stickford AS, Best SA, Yoo JK, Fu Q. Salt intake impacts sympathetic neural control but not morning blood pressure surge in premenopausal women with a history of normal pregnancy. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 319:H571-H581. [PMID: 32734815 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00197.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Salt intake may alter blood pressure (BP) regulation, but no study has investigated the impact of salt reduction versus salt loading on morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) and sympathetic neural control in premenopausal women with a history of normal pregnancy. Nine healthy women (42 ± 3 yr; mean ± SD) were given a low-salt diet (LS; 50 mEq sodium/day) and high-salt diet (HS; 250 mEq sodium/day) for 1 wk each (~2 mo apart with the order randomized), while water intake was ad libitum. Ambulatory BP at 24 h was measured, and the percent change in blood volume (BV) was calculated following LS and HS. MBPS was defined as the morning systolic BP (averaged for 2 h after wake-up) minus the lowest nocturnal systolic BP. Beat-by-beat BP, heart rate, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) were measured during supine rest. Signal averaging was used to characterize changes in beat-by-beat mean arterial pressure and total vascular conductance following spontaneous MSNA bursts to assess sympathetic vascular transduction. Ambulatory BP and MBPS (32 ± 7 vs. 26 ± 12 mmHg, P = 0.208) did not differ between LS and HS. From LS to HS, BV increased by 4.3 ± 3.7% (P = 0.008). MSNA (30 ± 20 vs. 18 ± 13 bursts/100 heartbeats, P = 0.005) was higher, whereas sympathetic vascular transduction was lower in LS than HS (both, P < 0.01). Changes in MSNA from LS to HS were correlated to percent changes in BV (r = -0.673; P = 0.047). Thus, salt intake affects sympathetic neural control but not MBPS in premenopausal women with a history of normal pregnancy. The underlying mechanisms remain unknown; however, alterations in sympathetic vascular transduction may, in part, contribute.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This is the first study to demonstrate that MBPS and ambulatory BP were not affected by salt intake despite a significant change in sympathetic outflow in healthy premenopausal women with a history of normal pregnancy. This may be due to compensatory adaptations in MSNA and sympathetic vascular transduction during salt reduction versus salt loading.
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- Ryosuke Takeda
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Hansen AB, Moralez G, Romero SA, Gasho C, Tymko MM, Ainslie PN, Hofstätter F, Rainer SL, Lawley JS, Hearon CM. Mechanisms of sympathetic restraint in human skeletal muscle during exercise: role of α-adrenergic and nonadrenergic mechanisms. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 319:H192-H202. [PMID: 32502375 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00208.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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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Sympathetic vasoconstriction is mediated by α-adrenergic receptors under resting conditions. During exercise, increased sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) is directed to inactive and active skeletal muscle; however, it is unclear what mechanism(s) are responsible for vasoconstriction during large muscle mass exercise in humans. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of α-adrenergic receptors to sympathetic restraint of inactive skeletal muscle and active skeletal muscle during cycle exercise in healthy humans. In ten male participants (18-35 yr), mean arterial pressure (intra-arterial catheter) and forearm vascular resistance (FVR) and conductance (FVC) were assessed during cycle exercise (60% total peak workload) alone and during combined cycle exercise + handgrip exercise (HGE) before and after intra-arterial blockade of α- and β-adrenoreceptors via phentolamine and propranolol, respectively. Cycle exercise caused vasoconstriction in the inactive forearm that was attenuated ~80% with adrenoreceptor blockade (%ΔFVR, +81.7 ± 84.6 vs. +9.7 ± 30.7%; P = 0.05). When HGE was performed during cycle exercise, the vasodilatory response to HGE was restrained by ~40% (ΔFVC HGE, +139.3 ± 67.0 vs. cycle exercise: +81.9 ± 66.3 ml·min-1·100 mmHg-1; P = 0.03); however, the restraint of active skeletal muscle blood flow was not due to α-adrenergic signaling. These findings highlight that α-adrenergic receptors are the primary, but not the exclusive mechanism by which sympathetic vasoconstriction occurs in inactive and active skeletal muscle during exercise. Metabolic activity or higher sympathetic firing frequencies may alter the contribution of α-adrenergic receptors to sympathetic vasoconstriction. Finally, nonadrenergic vasoconstrictor mechanisms may be important for understanding the regulation of blood flow during exercise.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Sympathetic restraint of vascular conductance to inactive skeletal muscle is critical to maintain blood pressure during moderate- to high-intensity whole body exercise. This investigation shows that cycle exercise-induced restraint of inactive skeletal muscle vascular conductance occurs primarily because of activation of α-adrenergic receptors. Furthermore, exercise-induced vasoconstriction restrains the subsequent vasodilatory response to hand-grip exercise; however, the restraint of active skeletal muscle vasodilation was in part due to nonadrenergic mechanisms. We conclude that α-adrenergic receptors are the primary but not exclusive mechanism by which sympathetic vasoconstriction restrains blood flow in humans during whole body exercise and that metabolic activity modulates the contribution of α-adrenergic receptors.
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- Alexander B Hansen
- Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Applied Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Loma Lida, Loma Lida, California
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.,Physical Activity and Diabetes Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre of Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, Dallas, Texas.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Young BE, Kaur J, Vranish JR, Stephens BY, Barbosa TC, Cloud JN, Wang J, Keller DM, Fadel PJ. Augmented resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in young, healthy, non-Hispanic black men. Exp Physiol 2020; 105:1102-1110. [PMID: 32362031 DOI: 10.1113/ep088535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? The prevalence of hypertension in black individuals exceeds that in other racial groups. Despite this well-known heightened risk, the underlying contributory factors remain incompletely understood. We hypothesized that young black men would exhibit augmented beat-to-beat blood pressure variability compared with white men and that black men would exhibit augmented total peripheral resistance variability. What is the main finding and its importance? We demonstrate that young, healthy black men exhibit greater resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability compared with their white counterparts, which is accompanied by greater variability in total peripheral resistance. These swings in blood pressure over time might contribute to the enhanced cardiovascular risk profile in black individuals. ABSTRACT The prevalence of hypertension in black (BL) individuals exceeds that in other racial groups. Recently, resting beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) variability has been shown to predict cardiovascular risk and detect target organ damage better than ambulatory BP monitoring. Given the heightened risk in BL individuals, we hypothesized young BL men would exhibit augmented beat-to-beat BP variability compared with white (WH) men. Furthermore, given studies reporting reduced vasodilatation and augmented vasoconstriction in BL individuals, we hypothesized that BL men would exhibit augmented variability in total peripheral resistance (TPR). In 45 normotensive men (24 BL), beat-to-beat BP (Finometer) was measured during 10-20 min of quiet rest. Cardiac output and TPR were estimated (Modelflow method). Despite similar resting BP, BL men exhibited greater BP standard deviation (e.g. systolic BP SD; BL, 7.1 ± 2.2 mmHg; WH, 5.4 ± 1.5 mmHg; P = 0.006) compared with WH men, which was accompanied by a greater TPR SD (P = 0.003), but not cardiac output SD (P = 0.390). Other traditional measures of variability provided similar results. Histogram analysis indicated that BL men exhibited a greater percentage of cardiac cycles with BPs higher (> +10 mmHg higher) and lower (< -8 mmHg lower) than mean systolic BP compared with WH men (interaction, P < 0.001), which was accompanied by a greater percentage of cardiac cycles with high/low TPR (P < 0.001). In a subset of subjects (n = 30), reduced sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity was associated with augmented BP variability (r = -0.638, P < 0.001), whereas cardiac baroreflex sensitivity had no relationship (P = 0.447). Herein, we document an augmented beat-to-beat BP variability in young BL men, which coincided with fluctuations in vascular resistance and reduced sympathetic BRS.
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- Benjamin E Young
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Health Science, Alma College, Alma, MI, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- College of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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Jacob DW, Mascone SE. Intermittent hypoxia and sympathetic activation: To constrict or not to constrict, that is the question. J Physiol 2020; 598:1125-1126. [DOI: 10.1113/jp279534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Dain W. Jacob
- Department of Nutrition & Exercise Physiology University of Missouri Columbia MO USA
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- Department of Kinesiology University of Maryland College Park MD USA
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