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Updated visitor guidelines. You are here Home » Cardiac Output. Top of the page. Topic Overview For the body to function properly, the heart needs to pump blood at a sufficient rate to maintain an adequate and continuous supply of oxygen and other nutrients to the brain and other vital organs.
Simultaneously with vasodilation in these three regions, a vasoconstriction occurs in the kidneys and gastrointestinal organs, due to an increase in activity of sympathetic neurons supplying them. Factor promoting venous return: increased activity of the skeletal-muscle pump.
Control of sympathetic outflow One or more discrete control centers in the brain are activated by output from the cerebral cortex. The arterial baroreceptors As mean and pulsatile pressure increase, baroreceptors should respond to increase parasympathetic and decrease sympathetic outflows, a patter n designed to counter the rise in arterial pressure. During exercise the exact opposite occurs: the arterial baroreceptors increase the arterial pressure during exercise. The resetting causes a decrease firing frequency in the baroreceptors, signalling for decreased parasympathetic and increase in sympathetic outflow.
To continue with the next section: respiratory contribution, click here. Your browser does not support script Exercise Physiology Laboratory. Many factors contribute to the changes observed during and immediately after exercise.
The following will be covered: Cardio-CNS contribution Respiratory contribution Changes at the muscular level Energy expenditure during exercise. Distribution of the systemic cardiac output at rest and during strenuous exercise. Vasodilation of arterioles in the skeletal and heart muscles and skin causes a decrease in total peripheral resistance to blood flow.
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