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Evidence for metaboreceptor stimulation of sweating in normothermic and heat-stressed humans1. Isometric handgrip (IHG) exercise increases sweat rate and arterial blood pressure, and both remain elevated during post-exercise ischaemia. The purpose of this study was to identify whether the elevation in arterial blood pressure during post-exercise ischaemia contributes to the increase in sweating. 2. In normothermia and during whole-body heating, 2 min IHG exercise at 40% maximal voluntary contraction, followed by 2 min post-exercise ischaemia, was performed with and without bolus intravenous administration of sodium nitroprusside during the ischaemic period. Sodium nitroprusside was administered to reduce blood pressure during post-exercise ischaemia to pre-exercise levels. Sweat rate was monitored over two microdialysis membranes placed in the dermal space of forearm skin. One membrane was perfused with the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor neostigmine, while the other was perfused with the vehicle. 3. In normothermia, IHG exercise increased sweat rate at the neostigmine-treated site but not at the control site. Sweat rate remained elevated during post-exercise ischaemia even after mean arterial blood pressure returned to the pre-IHG exercise baseline. Subsequent removal of the ischaemia stimulus returned sweat rate to pre-IHG exercise levels. Sweat rate during post-exercise ischaemia without sodium nitroprusside administration followed a similar pattern. 4. During whole-body heating, IHG exercise increased sweat rate at both neostigmine-treated and untreated sites. Similarly, regardless of whether mean arterial blood pressure remained elevated or was reduced during post-exercise ischaemia, sweat rate remained elevated during the ischaemic period. 5. These results suggest that sweating in non-glabrous skin during post-IHG exercise ischaemia is activated by metaboreflex stimulation and not via baroreceptor loading.
Document ID
20040112368
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Shibasaki, M.
(Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Suite 435, 7232 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231, United States)
Kondo, N.
Crandall, C. G.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
July 15, 2001
Publication Information
Publication: The Journal of physiology
Volume: 534
Issue: Pt 2
ISSN: 0022-3751
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: HL 61388
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Discipline Cardiopulmonary
Non-NASA Center

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