Menstrual cycle elicits divergent forearm vascular responses to vestibular activation in humans

Autor: Jason R. Carter, Jenna C. Klein, Johnathan E. Lawrence
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Autonomic Neuroscience. 154:89-93
ISSN: 1566-0702
Popis: The menstrual cycle has been reported to alter mean arterial pressure (MAP), but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), during vestibular activation. Specifically, MAP responses to head-down rotation (HDR) are augmented during the mid-luteal (ML) phase compared to the early follicular (EF) phase in young, eumenorrheic women. The purpose of the present study was to determine if the menstrual cycle influences vestibular-mediated changes in limb blood flow. MSNA, MAP, heart rate, and limb blood flow responses to HDR were measured in 12 healthy women. Resting MSNA, MAP, heart rate, forearm blood flow and calf blood flow were not altered by the menstrual cycle. HDR elicited similar increases in MSNA during the EF (Delta3+/-1 bursts/min; P
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