CALL FOR PAPERS Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation Aging alters regulation of visceral sympathetic nerve responses to acute hypothermia
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Helwig, Bryan G., Sujatha Parimi, Chanran K. Ganta, Richard Cober, Richard J. Fels, and Michael J. Kenney. Aging alters regulation of visceral sympathetic nerve responses to acute hypothermia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 291: R573–R579, 2006. First published February 23, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00903.2005.—Hypothermia produced by acute cooling prominently alters sympathetic nerve outflow. Skin sympathoexcitatory responses to skin cooling are attenuated in aged compared with young subjects, suggesting that advancing age influences sympathetic nerve responsiveness to hypothermia. However, regulation of skin sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) is only one component of the complex sympathetic nerve response profile to hypothermia. Whether aging alters the responsiveness of sympathetic nerves innervating other targets during acute cooling is not known. In the present study, using multifiber recordings of splenic, renal, and adrenal sympathetic nerve activity, we tested the hypothesis that hypothermia-induced changes in visceral SND would be attenuated in middle-aged and aged compared with young Fischer 344 (F344) rats. Colonic temperature (Tc) was progressively reduced from 38°C to 31°C in young (3 to 6 mo), middle-aged (12 mo), and aged (24 mo) baroreceptor-innervated and sinoaortic-denervated (SAD), urethane-chloralose anesthetized, F344 rats. The following observations were made. 1) Progressive hypothermia significantly (P 0.05) reduced splenic, renal, and adrenal SND in young baroreceptor-innervated F344 rats. 2) Reductions in splenic, renal, and adrenal SND to progressive hypothermia were less consistently observed and, when observed, were generally attenuated in baroreceptorinnervated middle-aged and aged compared with young F344 rats. 3) Differences in splenic, renal, and adrenal SND responses to reduced Tc were observed in SAD young, middle-aged, and aged F344 rats, suggesting that age-associated attenuations in SND responses to acute cooling are not the result of age-dependent modifications in arterial baroreflex regulation of SND. These findings demonstrate that advancing chronological age alters the regulation of visceral SND responses to progressive hypothermia, modifications that may contribute to the inability of aged individuals to adequately respond to acute bouts of hypothermia.
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Aging alters regulation of visceral sympathetic nerve responses to acute hypothermia.
Hypothermia produced by acute cooling prominently alters sympathetic nerve outflow. Skin sympathoexcitatory responses to skin cooling are attenuated in aged compared with young subjects, suggesting that advancing age influences sympathetic nerve responsiveness to hypothermia. However, regulation of skin sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) is only one component of the complex sympathetic nerve res...
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تاریخ انتشار 2006