Characterizing Sympathetic Neurovascular Transduction in Humans

Can Ozan Tan, Renaud Tamisier, J W Hamner and J Andrew Taylor

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Despite its critical role for cardiovascular homeostasis in humans, only a few studies have directly probed the transduction of sympathetic nerve activity to regional vascular responses – sympathetic neurovascular transduction. Those that have variably relied on either vascular resistance or vascular conductance to quantify the responses. However, it remains unclear which approach would better reflect the physiology. We assessed the utility of both of these as well as an alternative approach in 21 healthy men. We recorded arterial pressure (Finapres), peroneal sympathetic nerve activity (microneurography), and popliteal blood flow (Doppler) during isometric handgrip exercise to fatigue. We quantified and compared transduction via the relation of sympathetic activity to resistance and to conductance and via an adaptation of Poiseuille’s relation including pressure, sympathetic activity, and flow. The average relationship between sympathetic activity and resistance (or conductance) was good when assessed over 30-second averages (mean R2 = 0.49±0.07) but lesser when incorporating beat-by-beat time lags (R2 = 0.37±0.06). However, in a third of the subjects, these relations provided relatively weak estimates (R2 0.50 in 20 of 21 individuals), and provided reproducible estimates of transduction. The gain derived from the relation of resistance (but not conductance) was inversely related to transduction (R2 = 0.37, p

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