As dysfunction of the vascular system is an early, modifiable step in the progression of many
cardiovascular diseases, there is demand for methods to monitor the health of the vascular …

Three sentinel parameters of aerobic performance are the maximal oxygen uptake (), critical
power (CP) and speed of the kinetics following exercise onset. Of these, the latter is …

Key points• Passive limb movement elicits a robust increase in limb blood flow (LBF) and
limb vascular conductance (LVC) without a concomitant increase in skeletal muscle …

Passive exercise/movement has a long history in both medicine and physiology. Early
clinical applications of passive exercise/movement utilized pneumatic and direct limb …

In young healthy men, passive leg movement (PLM) elicits a robust nitric oxide (NO)-
dependent increase in leg blood flow (LBF), thus providing a novel approach to assess NO …

Advanced aging, vascular dysfunction, and nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability are recognized
risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the contribution of AD, per se, to this …

Previous studies have determined that premenopausal women exhibit an attenuated
metaboreflex; however, little is known about sex specificity of the mechanoreflex. Thus, we …

The influence of age on the central and peripheral contributors to exercise‐induced
hyperaemia is unclear. Utilizing a reductionist approach, we compared the peripheral and …

The assessment of passive leg movement (PLM)-induced leg blood flow (LBF) and vascular
conductance (LVC) is a novel approach to assess vascular function that has recently been …

The purpose of this investigation was to partially remove feedback from type III/IV skeletal
muscle afferents and determine how this feedback influences the central and peripheral …