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J Appl Physiol 60: 991-996, 1986;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 60, Issue 3 991-996, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Cardiac biochemical and functional adaptations to exercise in sympathectomized neonatal rats

A. M. MacIntosh, W. M. Mullin, D. P. Fitzsimons, R. E. Herrick and K. M. Baldwin

This study was undertaken to examine the influence of guanethidine monosulfate-induced sympathectomy on exercise-induced adaptations of cardiac contractile protein and on acute hemodynamic responses to exercise involving female neonatal rats. Four groups of rats were studied: 1) normal sedentary (NS), 2) normal trained (NT), 3) sympathectomized sedentary (SS), and 4) sympathectomized trained (ST). The 9-wk running program, which began at 20 days of age, induced increases in whole-body maximal O2 consumption and skeletal-muscle citrate synthase activity in both NT and ST groups compared with NS (P less than 0.05). Submaximal exercise tests demonstrated circulatory adaptations for NT, SS, and ST groups compared with NC; however, the ST group demonstrated the greatest degree of altered cardiac function (decreased heart rate, left ventricular pressure, and contractility index) during exercise. Also, significant reductions in both myosin- and Ca2+-regulated myofibril adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity and increases in the relative content of the low ATPase myosin isozyme, V3, occurred in the hearts of the two trained groups (P less than 0.05). These findings suggest that chronic exercise involving normal and sympathectomized neonatal rats improves cardiac function without compromising maximal exercise capacity. Also, the exercise-related adaptation involving myosin isozyme shifts are exaggerated when involvement of the sympathetic nervous system is reduced during training.


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