Adrenergic status of humans during prolonged exposure to the altitude of 6,542 m
| Autor: | Rachid Kacimi, J. L. Le Trong, C. Dubray, M. Marchal, Jean-Paul Richalet, A. M. Antezana, I. Abousahl |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Chronotropic medicine.medical_specialty Sympathetic Nervous System Physiology Acclimatization Adrenergic Blood Pressure Norepinephrine (medication) Electrocardiography Norepinephrine Heart Rate Physiology (medical) Internal medicine Receptors Adrenergic beta Heart rate medicine Humans Sympathoadrenal system Lymphocytes business.industry Altitude Hemodynamics Isoproterenol Effects of high altitude on humans Hypoxia (medical) Aerobiosis Oxygen Endocrinology Echocardiography Catecholamine Female medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Physiology. 76:1055-1059 |
| ISSN: | 1522-1601 8750-7587 |
| DOI: | 10.1152/jappl.1994.76.3.1055 |
| Popis: | Plasma norepinephrine (NE) concentration increases with altitude exposure while maximal heart rate (HR) and chronotropic response to isoproterenol (IP) are blunted. Downregulation of cardiac beta-adrenergic receptors (beta-AR) has been evoked to explain this phenomenon. Chronotropic response was studied at extreme altitude in 10 subjects (4 women, 6 men; aged 35 +/- 6 yr). Observations were made in normoxia (N) and after 1 (H1) and 3 (H3) wk at 6,542 m. Acclimatization was accomplished by gradual climbing from 4,000 to 6,542 m over 10 days. Plasma NE was obtained at rest and during submaximal exercise. Successive doses of IP (0.02, 0.04, and 0.06 microgram/kg-1.min-1) were infused for 5 min each. Density and affinity of lymphocyte beta 2-AR were also measured. Increase in HR for maximal dose of IP decreased from 57 +/- 12 to 34 +/- 7 and 37 +/- 10 min-1 in H1 and H3, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). IP dose for which HR rises by 25 min-1 (I25) increased from 27 +/- 5 in N to 42 +/- 10 and 43 +/- 17 ng.kg-1.min-1 in H1 and H3, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Arterial O2 saturation at rest was 98 +/- 2% in N, 72 +/- 6% in H1 (P < 0.001), and 79 +/- 5% in H3 (P < 0.001). The chronotropic response was neither restored nor further attenuated after 3 wk at 6,542 m. Plasma NE levels at rest and during exercise were higher at 6,542 m than values obtained in previous studies at 4,350 and 4,800 m.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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