Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 61, Issue 6 2218-2223, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Leukocytosis of exercise: role of cardiac output and catecholamines

N. K. Foster, J. B. Martyn, R. E. Rangno, J. C. Hogg and R. L. Pardy

The effect of propranolol (5 mg iv) on the leukocytosis of exercise was studied in seven normal young males. Leukocyte counts, plasma norepinephrine (NE), epinephrine (E), and cardiac output were measured at rest and in the steady state of several submaximal work loads when subjects exercised on a cycle ergometer. The results in control experiments were compared with those obtained on a different day with propranolol. Propranolol decreased heart rate at all work loads (P less than 0.001) but had no effect on the increase in cardiac output at increasing work loads. Plasma NE and E levels were similar at rest and in exercise in control and propranolol studies. There was no effect of propranolol on the increase in leukocyte counts with increasing work loads. Although propranolol did not affect the increase in total leukocyte count, the increase in lymphocyte count at higher work loads was less with propranolol. We conclude that the demargination of leukocytes from the pulmonary circulation in exercise is probably a mechanical effect of the increase in cardiac output. However, we have not excluded a contribution from a humoral event that would decrease the adherence of leukocytes to endothelium during exercise. The smaller increase in lymphocytes at higher work loads in the presence of propranolol suggests that catecholamines affect the lymphocyte count over and above their effect on cardiac output.

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