Internal carotid, external carotid and vertebral artery blood flow responses to 3 days of head-out dry immersion

Autor: Ogoh, Shigehiko, Hirasawa, Ai, de Abreu, Steven, Denise, Pierre, Normand, Hervé
Přispěvatelé: Toyo University, Kyorin University [Tokyo, Japan], Mobilités : Vieillissement, Pathologie, Santé (COMETE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Experimental Physiology
Experimental Physiology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, 102 (10), pp.1278-1287. ⟨10.1113/EP086507⟩
ISSN: 0958-0670
DOI: 10.1113/EP086507⟩
Popis: International audience; We have recently demonstrated that a heterogeneous cerebral blood flow (CBF) response in each cerebral artery might contribute to the maintenance of circulatory homeostasis in the brain. However, the extent to which weightlessness associated with a fluid shift from the peripheral to the central circulation influences the distribution of CBF in each cerebral artery remains unknown. We hypothesized that a dry immersion-induced fluid shift (weightlessness conditions) would cause a heterogeneous CBF response in each cerebral artery. During and after 3 days of dry immersion, the blood flows in the internal carotid (ICA), external carotid (ECA) and vertebral arteries (VA) were measured by Doppler ultrasonography using an 8 MHz linear transducer. Although the 3 days of dry immersion and the 2 days recovery period did not change the blood flow in each cerebral artery, the conductance in both ICA and VA decreased during dry immersion on days 2 and 3 (ICA, 2.95 and 3.23 ml min−1 mmHg−1; VA, 1.10 and 1.05 ml min−1 mmHg−1, respectively) from the baseline (ICA, 3.47 ml min−1 mmHg−1, P = 0.027; VA, 1.23 ml min−1 mmHg−1, P = 0.004). In addition, Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated that the 3 days of dry immersion induced a decrease in cardiac output (P = 0.004) that was associated with changes in ICA (P = 0.046) and VA blood flow (P = 0.021), but not ECA blood flow (P = 0.466). These findings suggest that short exposures to weightlessness, acting via a cephalad redistribution of fluid volume and blood flow in the human body, influenced the cerebral vasculature in each cerebral artery but did not cause a heterogeneous CBF response in each cerebral artery.
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