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J Appl Physiol 59: 1861-1865, 1985;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 59, Issue 6 1861-1865, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Early increases in coronary vascular reserve in exercised rats are independent of cardiac hypertrophy

P. M. Buttrick, H. A. Levite, T. F. Schaible, G. Ciambrone and J. Scheuer

To evaluate the relationship between the physiological cardiac hypertrophy associated with physical training and the increases in vascular capacitance associated with this stimuli, male and female rats trained by a swimming program were studied. Both sexes were used so that the coronary vascular response to exercise could be studied in the presence (females) and absence (males) of cardiac hypertrophy. Coronary vascular reserve was assessed in isolated retrograde buffer-perfused hearts under conditions of minimal coronary resistance (15 microM adenosine or anoxia). Both groups demonstrated an increase in coronary vascular reserve after 8 wk of exercise swim training, male animals increasing flow (per g of myocardium) by 15% and females by 18%. When the time course of this response was compared in female animals with the time course of the development of myocardial hypertrophy, it was evident that the vascular changes occurred early, greater than 80% of the response was seen within the first 10 days of exercise, compared with an approximately 35% increase in cardiac mass. These data suggest that the vascular response to exercise swim training is independent of the hypertrophic response and further that the increase in coronary vascularity is an early event in the cardiac adaptation to a physiological load.


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