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J Appl Physiol 75: 155-161, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 75, Issue 1 155-161, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Influence of autonomic blockade on cardiovascular responses to exercise in rats

J. M. Overton
Department of Nutrition, Food, and Movement Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306.

The purposes of this study were to determine the role of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in producing the heart rate (HR) response to dynamic exercise in rats and to determine the effect of attenuation of the HR response to exercise on blood flow redistribution. Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 10) were instrumented with arterial and venous catheters and Doppler flow probes. Mean arterial pressure (MAP), HR, mesenteric blood flow (MBF), and iliac blood flow (IBF) were determined during four exercise tests. On 4 consecutive days, rats were treated with saline (SAL, 1 mg/kg iv), atropine methyl nitrate (ATR, 2 mg/kg), timolol maleate (TIM, 0.5 mg/kg), and combined timolol and atropine. One minute of mild exercise (10 m/min) produced an increase in HR of 90 +/- 6 beats/min after SAL treatment, which was significantly less than the increment after ATR (56 +/- 5 beats/min) or TIM (4 +/- 3 beats/min). For the remainder of graded exercise, ATR treatment produced a modest attenuation in the increment in HR and no effect on MAP, IBF, and MBF. At 30 m/min, TIM markedly blunted the exercise-induced increment in HR (SAL, 138 +/- 8 beats/min; TIM, 53 +/- 4 beats/min) and IBF (SAL, 324 +/- 33%; TIM, 197 +/- 33%) with no effect on MAP or MBF. The results suggest that 1) the sympathetic nervous system is an important mediator of exercise-induced tachycardia in rats and 2) exercised-induced hyperemia, but not MAP, is attenuated by nonselective beta-blockade during exercise in rats.


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