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Trial reportExperimental brain research2023

Normobaric hypoxia does not influence the sural nerve cutaneous reflex during standing.

Mathew I B Debenham, Christina D Bruce, Juliana M Rancier, Chris J McNeil, Brian H Dalton

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Trial report in Experimental brain research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mathew I B DebenhamFaculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-3053
Christina D BruceFaculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.
Juliana M RancierFaculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.
Chris J McNeilFaculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-4404
Brian H DaltonFaculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada. brian.dalton@ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-215X
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [2017-06632]
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypoxia increases postural sway compared to normoxia, but the underlying sensorimotor factors remain unclear. An important contributor to balance control is cutaneous feedback arising from the feet, which can be partially characterized by electrically evoking a reflex from a purely cutaneous nerve (i.e., sural) and sampling the subsequent motor activity of a muscle. The purpose of the present study was to determine how normobaric hypoxia influences sural nerve reflex parameters during a standing posture. It was hypothesized that normobaric hypoxia would reduce cutaneous reflex area compared to normoxia. Participants (n = 16; 5 females, 11 males) stood with their feet together while receiving two trials of 50 sural nerve stimulations (200-Hz, 5-pulse train, presented randomly every 3-6 s) at baseline (BL; normoxia), and at 2 (H2) and 4 (H4) h of normobaric hypoxia (~ 0.11 fraction of inspired oxygen in a hypoxic chamber). The sural nerve reflex was recorded using surface electromyography from the left medial gastrocnemius, and characterized by area and duration of the initial positive and negative peaks of the response. When normalized to pre-stimulus electromyography, the area of the peak-to-peak cutaneous reflex was not different than BL (p ≥ 0.14) for up to 4 h of normobaric hypoxia (BL: 0.26 ± 0.22, H2: 0.19 ± 0.19, H4: 0.22 ± 0.20 A.U.). Furthermore, the duration of the response was not different during hypoxia (BL: 73.2 ± 42.4; H2: 75.2 ± 47.0; H4: 77.6 ± 54.6 ms; p ≥ 0.13) than BL. Thus, reflexes arising from cutaneous afferents of the lateral border of the foot are resilient to at least 4 h of normobaric hypoxia.

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ReflexSural NerveElectric StimulationElectromyographyFemaleHumansHypoxiaMaleMuscle, SkeletalCutaneous stimulationElectromyographyLow oxygenPostural controlStanding balance

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