ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2015
Aging alters muscle reflex control of autonomic cardiovascular responses to rhythmic contractions in humans.
Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02209610 (Premature Fatigue in Veterans With Heart Failure), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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Premature Fatigue in Veterans With Heart Failure: Neuronal Influences
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Enhanced cerebral oxygenation during mental and physical activity in older adults is unaltered by amnestic mild cognitive impairment.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Consequences of group III/IV afferent feedback and respiratory muscle work on exercise tolerance in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.Experimental physiology · 2023Review
- Autonomic cardiovascular control during exercise.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2023Review
- The exercise pressor reflex - a pressure-raising mechanism with a limited role in regulating leg perfusion during locomotion in young healthy men.The Journal of physiology · 2023Article
- Age-related alterations in the cardiovascular responses to acute exercise in males and females: role of the exercise pressor reflex.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Influence of locomotor muscle group III/IV afferents on cardiovascular and ventilatory responses in human heart failure during submaximal exercise.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Article
- Aging exaggerates blood pressure response to ischemic rhythmic handgrip exercise in humans.Physiological reports · 2021Article
- The dynamic adjustment of mean arterial pressure during exercise: a potential tool for discerning cardiovascular health status.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2021Article
- Locomotor muscle group III/IV afferents constrain stroke volume and contribute to exercise intolerance in human heart failure.The Journal of physiology · 2020Article
- On the Influence of Group III/IV Muscle Afferent Feedback on Endurance Exercise Performance.Exercise and sport sciences reviews · 2020Review
- The exercise pressor reflex and chemoreflex interaction: cardiovascular implications for the exercising human.The Journal of physiology · 2020Article
- Exercise Pressor Reflex Contributes to the Cardiovascular Abnormalities Characterizing: Hypertensive Humans During Exercise.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2019Article
- Impact of age on the development of fatigue during large and small muscle mass exercise.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018Article
- Influence of group III/IV muscle afferents on small muscle mass exercise performance: a bioenergetics perspective.The Journal of physiology · 2018Article
- Alteration of Metabosensitive Afferent Response With Aging: Exercised versus Non-exercised Rats.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Bioenergetics and ATP Synthesis during Exercise: Role of Group III/IV Muscle Afferents.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2017Article
- Peripheral vascular function, oxygen delivery and utilization: the impact of oxidative stress in aging and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.Heart failure reviews · 2017Review
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Abstract
We investigated the influence of aging on the group III/IV muscle afferents in the exercise pressor reflex-mediated cardiovascular response to rhythmic exercise. Nine old (OLD; 68 ± 2 yr) and nine young (YNG; 24 ± 2 yr) males performed single-leg knee extensor exercise (15 W, 30 W, 80% max) under control conditions and with lumbar intrathecal fentanyl impairing feedback from group III/IV leg muscle afferents. Mean arterial pressure (MAP), cardiac output, leg blood flow (QL), systemic (SVC) and leg vascular conductance (LVC) were continuously determined. With no hemodynamic effect at rest, fentanyl blockade during exercise attenuated both cardiac output and QL ∼17% in YNG, while the decrease in cardiac output in OLD (∼5%) was significantly smaller with no impact on QL (P = 0.8). Therefore, in the face of similar significant ∼7% reduction in MAP during exercise with fentanyl blockade in both groups, LVC significantly increased ∼11% in OLD, but decreased ∼8% in YNG. The opposing direction of change was reflected in SVC with a significant ∼5% increase in OLD and a ∼12% decrease in YNG. Thus while cardiac output seems to account for the majority of group III/IV-mediated MAP responses in YNG, the impact of neural feedback on the heart may decrease with age and alterations in SVC become more prominent in mediating the similar exercise pressor reflex in OLD. Interestingly, in terms of peripheral hemodynamics, while group III/IV-mediated feedback plays a clear role in increasing LVC during exercise in the YNG, these afferents seem to actually reduce LVC in OLD. These peripheral findings may help explain the limited exercise-induced peripheral vasodilation often associated with aging.
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