Altered Reflex Cardiovascular Control During Exercise in Heart Failure: Animal Studies.
From: Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. doleary@med.wayne.edu
Experimental physiology
- Publish Date: Jan 2006
- ISSN: 0958-0670
- Volume: 91
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 73-7
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): O'Leary Donal S, et al. Altered Reflex Cardiovascular Control During Exercise in Heart Failure: Animal Studies.. Exp. Physiol. Jan 2006;91:73-7
Abstract
This brief review summarizes recent studies describing the potential role of the muscle metaboreflex in mediating the altered cardiovascular responses to dynamic exercise in heart failure and the interaction between the muscle metaboreflex and the arterial baroreflex in these responses. In normal dogs, activation of the muscle metaboreflex (via partial reductions in hindlimb blood flow) during submaximal exercise, elicits a powerful pressor response. This increase in arterial pressure is mediated by an increase in cardiac output with little, if any, peripheral vasoconstriction. The metaboreflex pressor response is buffered by the arterial baroreflex via baroreflex-mediated inhibition of metaboreflex-induced peripheral vasoconstriction. In contrast, after induction of heart failure, the mechanisms involved in the muscle metaboreflex are shifted to vasoconstriction with little, if any, increase in cardiac output. The loss of the cardiac output response of the metaboreflex in heart failure probably stems from inability to improve ventricular function. The shift towards vasoconstriction in this setting may be due to depressed ability of the arterial baroreflex to buffer metaboreflex-induced peripheral vasoconstriction. The relative underperfusion of active skeletal muscle in heart failure may tonically activate the metaboreflex and this probably contributes to the enhanced sympatho-excitation seen during exercise in heart failure.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Baroreflex, Blood Pressure, Cardiac Output, Dogs, Exercise, Heart Failure, Heart Rate, Humans, Muscle, Skeletal, Physical Conditioning, Animal, Regional Blood Flow, Vasomotor System, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
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