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J Appl Physiol 82: 1107-1111, 1997;
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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 1107-1111, April 1997
SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION AND FLUID BALANCE

Does endothelin-1 participate in the exercise-induced changes of blood flow distribution of muscles in humans?

Seiji Maeda1, Takashi Miyauchi2, Michiko Sakane2, Makoto Saito1, Shinichi Maki2, Katsutoshi Goto3, and Mitsuo Matsuda1

1 Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, 2 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and 3 Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

Received 9 August 1996; accepted in final form 27 November 1996.

Maeda, Seiji, Takashi Miyauchi, Michiko Sakane, Makoto Saito, Shinichi Maki, Katsutoshi Goto, and Mitsuo Matsuda. Does endothelin-1 participate in the exercise-induced changes of blood flow distribution of muscles in humans? J. Appl. Physiol. 82(4): 1107-1111, 1997.---Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is an endothelium-derived potent vasoconstrictor peptide that potentiates contractions to norepinephrine in human vessels. We previously reported that the circulating plasma concentration of ET-1 is significantly increased after exercise (S. Maeda, T. Miyauchi, K. Goto, and M. Matsuda. J. Appl. Physiol. 77: 1399-1402, 1994). To study the roles of ET-1 during and after exercise, we investigated whether endurance exercise affects the production of ET-1 in the circulation of working muscles and nonworking muscles. Male athletes performed one-leg cycle ergometer exercise of 30-min duration at intensity of 110% of their individual ventilatory threshold. Plasma concentrations of ET-1 in both sides of femoral veins (veins in the working leg and nonworking leg) and in the femoral artery (artery in the nonworking leg) were measured before and after exercise. The plasma ET-1 concentration in the femoral vein in the nonworking leg was significantly increased after exercise, whereas that in femoral vein in the working leg was not changed. The arteriovenous difference in ET-1 concentration was significantly increased after exercise in the circulation of the nonworking leg but not of the working leg, which suggests that the production of ET-1 was increased in the circulation of the nonworking leg by exercise. The present study also demonstrated that the plasma norepinephrine concentrations were elevated by exercise in the femoral veins of both the working and nonworking legs, suggesting that the sympathetic nerve activity was augmented in both legs during exercise. Therefore, the present study demonstrates the possibility that the increase in production of ET-1 in nonworking muscles may cause vasoconstriction and hence decrease blood flow in nonworking muscles through its direct vasoconstrictive action or through an indirect effect of ET-1 to enhance vasoconstrictions to norepinephrine and that these responses may be helpful in increasing blood flow in working muscles. We propose that endogenous ET-1 contributes to the exercise-induced redistribution of blood flow in muscles.

one-leg cycle ergometer exercise; working and nonworking muscles ; arteriovenous difference in endothelin-1 concentration; skeletal muscles; redistribution of blood flow


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