Descending motor drive does not interact with muscle metaboreflex for ventilation regulation during rhythmic exercise in healthy humans
2024
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Felipe Gomes, Thiago Lopes, Richard Bruce, Bruno Silva
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American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Abstract
Voluntary (i.e., with descending motor drive) and involuntary (i.e., no descending motor drive) plantar flexion elicited similar ventilatory responses when postexercise circulatory occlusion was or was not used in an upper limb. These results indicate that the descending motor drive component of the central command and the muscle metaboreflex do not interact to regulate pulmonary ventilation during rhythmic exercise, which suggests that a supposed interaction between central command-muscle metaboreflex is more complex than previously thought.
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Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Volume
- 327
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- L783-L795
- Publisher
- American Physiological Society
- ISSN
- 1040-0605, 1522-1504