ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2012
Exercise training prevents skeletal muscle afferent sensitization in rats with chronic heart failure.
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- Molecular basis for the improvement in muscle metaboreflex and mechanoreflex control in exercise-trained humans with chronic heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2014Trial
- Neural Inflammation in Thoracic Dorsal Root Ganglia Mediates Cardiopulmonary Spinal Afferent Sensitization in Chronic Heart Failure.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Novel role for purinergic 2× subtype 4 (P2X4) receptors in the exercise pressor reflex and mechanoreflex: Effect of heart failure.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2025Article
- Exercise Training in Heart Failure: Clinical Benefits and Mechanisms.Circulation research · 2025Review
- Muscle metaboreflex adaptations to exercise training in health and disease.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Review
- The ergoreflex: how the skeletal muscle modulates ventilation and cardiovascular function in health and disease.European journal of heart failure · 2021Review
- Voltage-gated potassium channel dysfunction in dorsal root ganglia contributes to the exaggerated exercise pressor reflex in rats with chronic heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2021Article
- Exercise intolerance and fatigue in chronic heart failure: is there a role for group III/IV afferent feedback?European journal of preventive cardiology · 2020Article
- Metabo- and mechanoreceptor expression in human heart failure: Relationships with the locomotor muscle afferent influence on exercise responses.Experimental physiology · 2020Article
- Sympathoexcitation in response to cardiac and pulmonary afferent stimulation of TRPA1 channels is attenuated in rats with chronic heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2019Article
- Increased Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Lumbar Dorsal Root Ganglia Contributes to the Enhanced Exercise Pressor Reflex in Heart Failure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
- Competition for blood flow distribution between respiratory and locomotor muscles: implications for muscle fatigue.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2018Review
- Angiotensin II, Oxidative Stress, and Sympathetic Nervous System Hyperactivity in Heart Failure.Yonago acta medica · 2018Review
- Alteration of Metabosensitive Afferent Response With Aging: Exercised versus Non-exercised Rats.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex control of cardiac function in normal and chronic heart failure states.The Journal of physiology · 2017Article
- Involvement of the TRPV1 channel in the modulation of spontaneous locomotor activity, physical performance and physical exercise-induced physiological responses.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2016Review
- Aerobic Exercise and Pharmacological Therapies for Skeletal Myopathy in Heart Failure: Similarities and Differences.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2016Review
- Peripheral reflex feedbacks in chronic heart failure: Is it time for a direct treatment?World journal of cardiology · 2015Article
- Dynamic exercise training prevents exercise pressor reflex overactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
An exaggerated exercise pressor reflex (EPR) contributes to exercise intolerance and excessive sympathoexcitation in the chronic heart failure (CHF) state, which is prevented by exercise training (ExT) at an early stage in the development of CHF. We hypothesized that ExT has a beneficial effect on the exaggerated EPR by improving the dysfunction of muscle afferents in CHF. We recorded the discharge of mechanically sensitive (group III) and metabolically sensitive (group IV) afferents in response to static contraction, passive stretch, and hindlimb intra-arterial injection of capsaicin in sham+sedentary (Sed), sham+ExT, CHF+Sed, and CHF+ExT rats. Compared with sham+Sed rats, CHF+Sed rats exhibited greater responses of group III afferents to contraction and stretch, whereas the responses of group IV afferents to contraction and capsaicin were blunted. ExT prevented the sensitization of group III responses to contraction or stretch and partially prevented the blunted group IV responses to contraction or capsaicin in CHF rats. Furthermore, we investigated whether purinergic 2X (P2X) and transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptors mediate the altered sensitivity of muscle afferents by ExT in CHF. We found that the upregulated P2X and downregulated TRPV1 receptors in L4/5 dorsal root ganglia of CHF rats were normalized by ExT. Hindlimb intra-arterial infusion of a P2X antagonist attenuated the group III response to contraction or stretch in CHF rats to a greater extent than in sham rats, which was normalized by ExT. These findings suggest that ExT improves the abnormal sensitization of muscle afferents in CHF at least, in part, via restoring the dysfunction of P2X and TRPV1 receptors.
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