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Ventilatory and circulatory responses at the onset of dominant and non-dominant limb exercise

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We compared the ventilatory and circulatory responses during 20 s of light dynamic leg and arm exercises performed separately using dominant and non-dominant limbs. Seventeen subjects performed a 20-s single-leg knee extension-flexion exercise with a load of 5% of maximal muscle strength attached to the ankle. Fifteen of the seventeen subjects also did a single-arm elbow flexion-extension exercise in which a load was attached to the wrist in the same way as in the leg exercise. Similar movements were passively performed on the subjects by experimenters to avoid the effects of central command. The magnitude of change from rest (gain) in minute ventilation during passive movement (PAS) was significantly smaller in the dominant limbs than in the non-dominant limbs, though a significant difference was not detected during voluntary exercise (VOL). In contrast, heart rate and blood pressure responses did not show any differences between the dominant and non-dominant limbs during either VOL or PAS. In conclusion, the initial ventilatory response to PAS in the dominant limbs was lower than that of the non-dominant limbs, though the ventilatory response to VOL was not. Circulatory responses were not different between the dominant and non-dominant limbs. These results suggest that peripheral neural reflex during exercise could be different between dominant and non-dominant limbs and that ventilatory response at the onset of exercise might be controlled by the dual neural modulation of central command and peripheral neural reflex, resulting in the same ventilatory response to both dominant and non-dominant limb exercise.

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Acknowledgments

We appreciate the cooperation of the subjects in the present study. We would also like to thank Drs. N. Kasuga, T. Aoki, and H. Matsuo for advising us, Dr. M. Saito for providing his report, and Mr. J. Myerson for reviewing the English in this manuscript.

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  1. Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Norio Hotta

  2. Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Kaoru Yamamoto

  3. Research Institute of Physical Fitness, Japan Women’s College of Physical Education, Tokyo, Japan

    Kohei Sato

  4. Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness and Sports, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Keisho Katayama & Koji Ishida

  5. Faculty of Environmental and Symbiotic Sciences, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, 3-1-100 Tsukide, Kumamoto, 862-8502, Japan

    Norio Hotta & Yoshiyuki Fukuoka

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Hotta, N., Yamamoto, K., Sato, K. et al. Ventilatory and circulatory responses at the onset of dominant and non-dominant limb exercise. Eur J Appl Physiol 101, 347–358 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-007-0500-1

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