Cardiovascular responses to human calf muscle stretch during varying levels of muscle metaboreflex activation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 773-781

  Fisher, James P ^a   Bell, Martin P D ^a   White, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BREATHING PATTERN; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MECHANOREFLEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE METABOREFLEX; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTAR FLEXION; POSTEXERCISE CIRCULATORY OCCLUSION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 26044456379     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.030577     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Adam A & De Luca CJ (2003). Recruitment order of motor units in human vastus lateralis muscle is maintained during fatiguing contractions. J Neurophysiol 90, 2919-2927.
2. Adreani CM, Hill JM & Kaufman MP (1997). Responses of group III and IV muscle afferents to dynamic exercise. J Appl Physiol 82, 1811-1817.
3. Adreani CM & Kaufman MP (1998). Effect of arterial occlusion on responses of group III and IV afferents to dynamic exercise. J Appl Physiol 84, 1827-1833.
4. Alam M & Smirk FH (1937). Observations in man upon a blood pressure raising reflex arising from the voluntary muscles. J Physiol 89, 372-383.
5. Baum K, Selle K, Leyk D & Essfeld D (1995). Comparison of blood pressure and heart rate responses to isometric exercise and passive muscle stretch in humans. Eur J Appl Physiol 70, 240-245.
6. Bell M & White MJ (2005). Blood pressure responses to external compression of the human lower leg during calf muscle chemoreflex stimulation of varying intensity. Exp Physiol 90, 383-391.
7. Carrington CA, Fisher WJ, Davies MK & White MJ (2001). Muscle afferent and central command contributions to the cardiovascular response to isometric exercise of postural muscle in patients with mild chronic heart failure. Clin Sci 100, 643-651.
8. Coote JH, Hilton SM & Perez-Gonzalez JF (1971). The reflex nature of the pressor response to muscular exercise. J Physiol 215, 789-804.
9. Costa F, Diedrich A, Johnson B, Sulur P, Parley G & Biaggioni I (2001). Adenosine, a metabolic trigger of the exercise pressor reflex in humans. Hypertension 37, 917-922.
10. Fallentin N, Jensen BR, Bystrom S & Sjøgaard G (1992). Role of potassium in the reflex regulation of blood pressure during static exercise in man. J Physiol 451, 643-651.
11. Fallentin N, Sidenius B & Jorgensen K (1985). Blood pressure, heart rate and EMG in low level static contractions. Acta Physiol Scand 125, 265-275.
12. Fisher JP (2004). The role of muscle afferents in the cardiovascular response to isometric exercise in humans. PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham, UK.
13. Gallagher KM, Fadel PJ, Stromstad M, Ide K, Smith SA, Querry RG, Raven PB & Secher NH (2001). Effects of exercise pressor reflex activation on carotid baroreflex function during exercise in humans. J Physiol 533, 871-880.
14. Gandevia SC (2001). Spinal and supraspinal factors in human muscle fatigue. Physiol Rev 81, 1725-1789.
15. Gladwell VF & Coote JH (2002). Heart rate at the onset of muscle contraction and during passive muscle stretch in humans: a role for mechanoreceptors. J Physiol 540, 1095-1102.
16. Gladwell VF, Fletcher J, Patel N, Eldridge L, Lloyd D et al. (2005). The influence of small fibre muscle mechanoreceptors on the cardiac vagus in humans. J Physiol 567, 713-721.
17. Goodwin GM, McCloskey DI & Mitchell JH (1972). Cardiovascular and respiratory responses to changes in central command during isometric exercise at constant muscle tension. J Physiol 226, 173-190.
18. Harridge SD & White MJ (1993). A comparison of voluntary and electrically evoked isokinetic plantar flexor torque in humans. Eur J Appl Physiol 66, 343-348.
19. Hayes SG, Kindig AE & Kaufman MP (2005). A comparison between the effect of static contraction and tendon stretch on the discharge of group III and IV muscle afferents. J Appl Physiol. DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00629.2005.
20. Herr MD, Imadojemu V, Kunselman AR & Sinoway LI (1999). Characteristics of the muscle mechanoreflex during quadriceps contractions in humans. J Appl Physiol 86, 767-772.
21. Johnson SW, Lynn PA, Miller S & Reed GAL (1977). Miniature skin-mounted preamplifier for measurement of surface electromyographic potentials. Med Biomed Eng Comp 15, 710-711.
22. Kaufman MP & Forster HV (1996). Reflexes controlling circulatory, ventilatory and airway responses to exercise. In Handbook of Physiology. Exercise: Regulation and Integration of Multiple Systems. Control of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems, pp. 381-447. American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD, USA.
23. Kaufman MP & Rybicki KJ (1987). Discharge properties of group III and IV muscle afferents: their response to mechanical and metabolic stimuli. Circ Res 61, 160-165.
24. Leshnower BG, Potts JT, Garry MG & Mitchell JH (2001). Reflex cardiovascular responses evoked by selective activation of skeletal muscle ergoreceptors. J Appl Physiol 90, 308-316.
25. Lind AR (1983). Cardiovascular adjustment to isometric contraction: static effect. In Handbook of Physiology. The Cardiovascular System, pp. 947-966. American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD, USA.
26. Ludbrook J (1994). Repeated measurements and multiple comparisons in cardiovascular research. Cardiovasc Res 28, 303-311.
27. McCloskey DI & Mitchell JH (1972). Reflex cardiovascular and respiratory responses originating in exercising muscle. J Physiol 224, 173-186.
28. Mark AL, Victor RG, Nerhed C & Wallin BG (1985). Microneurographic studies of the mechanisms of sympathetic nerve responses to static exercise in humans. Circ Res 57, 461-469.
29. Matsukawa K, Wall PT, Wilson LB & Mitchell JH (1994). Reflex stimulation of cardiac sympathetic nerve activity during static muscle contraction in cats. Am J Physiol 267, H821-H827.
30. Mense S & Stahnke M (1983). Responses in muscle afferent fibres of slow conduction velocity to contractions and ischaemia in the cat. J Physiol 342, 383-397.
31. Murata J & Matsukawa K (2001). Cardiac vagal and sympathetic efferent discharges are differentially modified by stretch of skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol 280, H237-H245.
32. Nishiyasu T, Tan N, Morimoto K, Nishiyasu M, Yamaguchi Y & Murakami N (1994). Enhancement of parasympathetic cardiac activity during activation of muscle metaboreflex in humans. J Appl Physiol 77, 2778-2783.
33. Rotto DM, Hill JM, Schultz HD & Kaufman MP (1990). Cyclooxygenase blockade attenuates responses of group IV muscle afferents to static contraction. Am J Physiol 259, H745-H750.
34. Rowell LB, Freund PR & Hobbs SF (1981). Cardiovascular responses to muscle ischemia in humans. Circ Res 48, 137-147.
35. Rowell LB, Hermansen L & Blackmon JR (1976). Human cardiovascular and respiratory responses to graded muscle ischaemia. J Appl Physiol 41, 693-701.
36. Sale D, Quinlan J, Marsh A, McComas AJ & Belanger AY (1982). Influence of joint position on ankle plantarflexion torque in humans. J Appl Physiol 52, 1636-1642.
37. Seals DR (1989). Sympathetic neural discharge and vascular resistance during exercise in humans. J Appl Physiol 66, 2472-2478.
38. Stebbins CL, Brown B, Levin D & Longhurst JC (1988). Reflex effect of muscle mechanoreceptor stimulation on the cardiovascular system. J Appl Physiol 65, 1539-1547.
39. Sterns DA, Ettinger SM, Gray KS, Whisler SK, Mosher TJ et al. (1991). Skeletal muscle metaboreceptor exercise responses are attenuated in heart failure. Circ 84, 2034-2039.
40. Task Force of European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (1996). Heart rate variability - standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use. Circ 93, 1043-1065.
41. Victor RG, Pryor SL, Secher NH & Mitchell JH (1989). Effects of partial neuromuscular blockade on sympathetic nerve responses to static exercise in humans. Circ Res 65, 468-476.
42. Victor RG, Secher NH, Lyson T & Mitchell JH (1995). Central command increases muscle sympathetic nerve activity during intense intermittent isometric exercise in humans. Circ Res 76, 127-131.
43. Waldrop TG, Eldridge FL, Iwamoto GA, et al. (1996). Central neural control of respiration and circulation during exercise. In Handbook of Physiology. Exercise: Regulation and Integration of Multiple Systems. Control of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems, pp. 356-379. American Physiological Society, Bethesda, USA.
44. Williamson JW, Crandall CG, Potts JT & Raven PB (1994). Blood pressure responses to dynamic exercise with lower-body positive pressure. Med Sci Sports Exerc 26, 701-708.
45. Wilson LB, Wall PT, Pawelczyk JA & Matsukawa K (1994). Cardiorespiratory and phrenic nerve responses to graded muscle stretch in anesthetized cats. Respir Physiol 98, 251-266.