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Modulation of the spontaneous beat-to-beat fluctuations in peripheral vascular resistance during activation of muscle metaboreflex

¹Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan; ²Applied Physiology Laboratory, Kobe Design University, Kobe, Japan; and ³Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Submitted 31 October 2006 ; accepted in final form 12 March 2007

Continuous measurement of leg blood flow (LBF) using Doppler ultrasound with simultaneous noninvasive mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) measurement permits beat-to-beat estimates of leg vascular resistance (LVR) in humans. We tested the hypothesis that the beat-to-beat fluctuations in LVR and the dynamic relationship between MAP and LVR are modulated by the activation of muscle metaboreflex. Twelve healthy subjects performed a 1-min isometric handgrip exercise at 50% maximal voluntary contraction, which was followed by a period of imposed postexercise muscle ischemia (PEMI). We then employed transfer function analysis to examine the dynamic relationships between MAP and LBF and between MAP and LVR, both at rest (control) and during PEMI. We found the following. 1) The spectral power for LBF and LVR in low-frequency (0.03–0.15 Hz) range significantly increased from control during PEMI without a significant change in the high-frequency (0.15–0.35 Hz) power. 2) During PEMI, the transfer function gains for MAP-LBF and MAP-LVR relationships in the low-frequency (0.05–0.15 Hz) range were significantly increased during PEMI (vs. control) but were unchanged in the high-frequency (0.2–0.3 Hz) range. 3) The phases for MAP-LBF and MAP-LVR relationships were not different during control and PEMI. The phase for MAP-LVR relationship revealed that changes in MAP were followed by directionally similar changes in LVR, which is consistent with the characteristics of intrinsic vascular regulatory mechanisms such as the myogenic response of the resistance arteries. We suggest that, in humans, modulation of the dynamic MAP-LVR relationship during activation of the muscle metaboreflex reflects complex interactions between intrinsic vascular regulatory mechanisms and sympathetic vascular regulation.

skeletal muscle metaboreflex; transfer function analysis; Doppler ultrasound; myogenic; arterial baroreflex

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