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Central blood volume influences sympathetic sudomotor nerve traffic in warm humans. 1995

C Dodt, and T Gunnarsson, and M Elam, and T Karlsson, and B G Wallin

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgren Hospital, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

The objective of this study was to test whether changes in central blood volume can induce reflex effects on sweating. Multi-unit skin sympathetic nerve activity (SSA) was recorded from the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm or radial nerve branches in 11 healthy volunteers. Skin electrical resistance and skin blood flow were recorded in the area innervated by the impaled nerve fascicle. Sudomotor nerve traffic and sweating was induced by whole body heating. Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) and tilting (30 degrees head up) was used for blood volume displacement from the chest to the lower body. Low levels of LBNP (5 and 10 mmHg) had no effect on blood pressure, heart rate or skin blood flow but induced a prompt inhibition of SSA and a reduced number of transient skin resistance changes (n = 9), both rapidly returning to control levels after cessation of LBNP. Quantitatively, the effect was similar at both levels of LBNP. Head up tilting also reduced SSA (n = 3, 19 tilt manoeuvres). A capacity for mental stress-induced SSA increase remained during LBNP. Spontaneous fluctuations in blood pressure did not affect SSA, arguing against arterial (high-pressure) baroreceptors modulating SSA. Consequently, the present results indicate that unloading of cardiopulmonary (low-pressure) volume receptors reduces sympathetic sudomotor nerve traffic and sweating in warm subjects. It is suggested that the reflex contributes to counteracting hypovolaemia.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008150	Lower Body Negative Pressure	External decompression applied to the lower body. It is used to study orthostatic intolerance and the effects of gravitation and acceleration, to produce simulated hemorrhage in physiologic research, to assess cardiovascular function, and to reduce abdominal stress during childbirth.	Abdominal Decompression,Decompression, Abdominal,LBNP
D008297	Male		Males
D011187	Posture	The position or physical attitude of the body.	Postures
D011311	Pressoreceptors	Receptors in the vascular system, particularly the aorta and carotid sinus, which are sensitive to stretch of the vessel walls.	Baroreceptors,Receptors, Stretch, Arterial,Receptors, Stretch, Vascular,Stretch Receptors, Arterial,Stretch Receptors, Vascular,Arterial Stretch Receptor,Arterial Stretch Receptors,Baroreceptor,Pressoreceptor,Receptor, Arterial Stretch,Receptor, Vascular Stretch,Receptors, Arterial Stretch,Receptors, Vascular Stretch,Stretch Receptor, Arterial,Stretch Receptor, Vascular,Vascular Stretch Receptor,Vascular Stretch Receptors
D001783	Blood Flow Velocity	A value equal to the total volume flow divided by the cross-sectional area of the vascular bed.	Blood Flow Velocities,Flow Velocities, Blood,Flow Velocity, Blood,Velocities, Blood Flow,Velocity, Blood Flow
D001794	Blood Pressure	PRESSURE of the BLOOD on the ARTERIES and other BLOOD VESSELS.	Systolic Pressure,Diastolic Pressure,Pulse Pressure,Pressure, Blood,Pressure, Diastolic,Pressure, Pulse,Pressure, Systolic,Pressures, Systolic
D001810	Blood Volume	Volume of circulating BLOOD. It is the sum of the PLASMA VOLUME and ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME.	Blood Volumes,Volume, Blood,Volumes, Blood
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000320	Adrenergic Fibers	Nerve fibers liberating catecholamines at a synapse after an impulse.	Sympathetic Fibers,Adrenergic Fiber,Fiber, Adrenergic,Fiber, Sympathetic,Fibers, Adrenergic,Fibers, Sympathetic,Sympathetic Fiber

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