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Departments of Anesthesiology and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295
Little attention has focused on
sympathetic influences on skeletal muscle blood flow at the onset of
exercise. We hypothesized that 1) the sympathetic nervous
system constrains muscle blood flow and 2) the decline from
peak blood flow is mediated by increasing sympathetic vasoconstrictor
tone. Mongrel dogs (n = 7) ran on a treadmill after
intra-arterial infusion of saline (control) or combined
1- and
2-adrenergic blockade (prazosin
and rauwolscine). Immediate and rapid increases in hindlimb blood flow
occurred at commencement of exercise with peak iliac blood flows
averaging 933 ± 79 and 1,227 ± 90 ml/min during control and
blockade conditions, respectively. At 1 min of exercise,
hindlimb blood flow had decreased to 629 ± 54 and 1,057 ± 89 ml/min. In the absence of sympathetic vasoconstrictor tone, there
was an enhanced peak blood flow at the onset of exercise. In addition,
-blockade attenuated the overshoot of hindlimb blood flow compared
with the control condition. These data suggest that an immediate and
sustained increase in sympathetic outflow restrains hindlimb blood flow
at the onset of exercise and is responsible, at least in part, for an
overshoot of blood flow to exercising skeletal muscle.
hyperemia; autonomic; adrenergic receptors
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