ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2008
Exercise training normalizes enhanced glutamate-mediated sympathetic activation from the PVN in heart failure.
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- Role of Exercise in Modulating the Brain-Heart Axis in Cardiovascular Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Dissecting the exercise pressor reflex in heart failure: A multi-step failure.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2025Review
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- Nrf2 and autonomic dysregulation in chronic heart failure and hypertension.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
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- Modulation of Sirt1 and FoxO1 on Hypothalamic Leptin-Mediated Sympathetic Activation and Inflammation in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
- Neuroplasticity in N-methyl-d-aspartic acid receptor signaling in subregions of the rat rostral ventrolateral medulla following sedentary versus physically active conditions.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2021Article
- Estrogen-dependent hypersensitivity to diabetes-evoked cardiac autonomic dysregulation: Role of hypothalamic neuroinflammation.Life sciences · 2020Article
- Synergistic anticataleptic effect of imipramine and nicotine in a rotenone-induced rat model.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Exercise training augments neuronal nitric oxide synthase dimerization in the paraventricular nucleus of rats with chronic heart failure.Nitric oxide : biology and chemistry · 2019Article
- Leptin-Mediated Sympathoexcitation in Obese Rats: Role for Neuron-Astrocyte Crosstalk in the Arcuate Nucleus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Regulation of sympathetic vasomotor activity by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in normotensive and hypertensive states.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2018Review
- Specific Afferent Renal Denervation Prevents Reduction in Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Within the Paraventricular Nucleus in Rats With Chronic Heart Failure.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2018Article
- A novel role for miR-133a in centrally mediated activation of the renin-angiotensin system in congestive heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2017Article
- A Hypothalamic Leptin-Glutamate Interaction in the Regulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity.Neural plasticity · 2017Article
- Exercise training preserves vagal preganglionic neurones and restores parasympathetic tonus in heart failure.The Journal of physiology · 2016Article
- Effect of heart failure on catecholamine granule morphology and storage in chromaffin cells.The Journal of endocrinology · 2016Article
- Renal denervation improves cardiac function in rats with chronic heart failure: Effects on expression of β-adrenoceptors.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2016Article
- Clinical neurocardiology defining the value of neuroscience-based cardiovascular therapeutics.The Journal of physiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Exercise training (ExT) normalizes the increased sympathetic outflow in heart failure (HF), but the mechanisms are not known. We hypothesized that ExT would normalize the augmented glutamatergic mechanisms mediated by N-methyl-d-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors within the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) that occur with HF. Four groups of rats were used: 1) sham-operated (Sham) sedentary (Sed), 2) Sham ExT, 3) HF Sed, and 4) HF ExT. HF was induced by left coronary artery ligation, and ExT consisted of 3 wk of treadmill running. In alpha-chloralose-urethane-anesthetized rats, the increase in renal sympathetic nerve activity in response to the highest dose of NMDA (200 pmol) injected into the PVN in the HF Sed group was approximately twice that of the Sham Sed group. In the HF ExT group the response was not different from the Sham Sed and Sham ExT groups. Relative NMDA NR1 receptor subunit mRNA expression was 63% higher in the HF Sed group compared with the Sham Sed group but in the HF ExT group was not different from the Sham Sed and Sham ExT groups. NR1 receptor subunit protein expression was increased 87% in the HF Sed group compared with the Sham Sed group but in the HF ExT group was not significantly different from the Sham Sed and Sham ExT groups. Thus one mechanism by which ExT alleviates elevated sympathetic outflow in HF may be through normalization of glutamatergic mechanisms within the PVN.
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