Key result
Metaboreceptor activation via post-exercise ischemia reduced cutaneous vascular conductance (39% vs 47%) and increased sweat rate (0.94 vs 0.53 mg·min⁻¹·cm⁻²) compared to control (P<0.05).
Why the study?
Does metaboreceptor activation alter heat loss responses (cutaneous vascular conductance and sweat rate) following dynamic exercise in males?
Does metaboreceptor activation alter heat loss responses (cutaneous vascular conductance and sweat rate) following dynamic exercise in males?
Absolute Event Rate: 39% vs 47%
p-value: p=<0.05
Metaboreceptor activation following dynamic exercise reduces cutaneous vascular conductance and increases sweat rate, with baroreceptor loading further influencing the CVC response.
May modulate post-exercise thermoregulation; leaves open relevance to clinical heat stress or exercise recovery.
Metaboreceptor activation during passive heating is known to influence cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC) and sweat rate (SR). However, whether metaboreceptors modulate the suppression of heat loss following dynamic exercise remains unclear. On separate days, before and after 15 min of high-intensity treadmill running in the heat (35°C), eight males underwent either 1) no isometric handgrip exercise (IHG) or ischemia (CON), 2) 1 min IHG (60% of maximum, IHG), 3) 1 min IHG followed by 2 min of ischemia (IHG+OCC), 4) 2 min of ischemia (OCC), or 5) 1 min IHG followed by 2 min of ischemia with application of lower body negative pressure (IHG+LBNP). SR (ventilated capsule), cutaneous blood flow (Laser-Doppler), and mean arterial pressure (Finometer) were measured continuously before and after dynamic exercise. Following dynamic exercise, CVC was reduced with IHG exercise (P < 0.05) and remained attenuated with post-IHG ischemia during IHG+OCC relative to CON (39 ± 2 vs. 47 ± 6%, P < 0.05). Furthermore, the reduction in CVC was exacerbated by application of LBNP during post-IHG ischemia (35 ± 3%, P < 0.05) relative to IHG+OCC. SR increased during IHG exercise (P < 0.05) and remained elevated during post-IHG ischemia relative to CON following dynamic exercise (0.94 ± 0.15 vs. 0.53 ± 0.09 mg·min(-1)·cm(-2), P < 0.05). In contrast, application of LBNP during post-IHG ischemia had no effect on SR (0.93 ± 0.09 mg·min(-1)·cm(-2), P > 0.05) relative to post-IHG ischemia during IHG+OCC. We show that CVC is reduced and that SR is increased by metaboreceptor activation following dynamic exercise. In addition, we show that the metaboreflex-induced loading of the baroreceptors can influence the CVC response, but not the sweating response.
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McGinn et al. (2013) studied this question. Isometric handgrip exercise (IHG) and ischemia vs. No IHG or ischemia (CON) was evaluated on Cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC) (p=<0.05). Metaboreceptor activation via post-exercise ischemia reduced cutaneous vascular conductance (39% vs 47%) and increased sweat rate (0.94 vs 0.53 mg·min⁻¹·cm⁻²) compared to control (P<0.05).
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