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Cardiovascular Response During Exercise

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In contrast to the hitherto revived studies mainly performed on anesthetized, open-chest animals or on isolated heart preparations, the physiological events that occur in exercising animals or humans provide a unique insight into the function of the cardiovascular system at the limits of its capacity. Under such conditions, the role of central and peripheral circulations becomes more clearly defined and affords us with, as yet, the strongest evidence for the primal role of the peripheral circulation. It is not surprising that, given the lack of a unifying paradigm on the hemodynamic response to exercise, this field is fraught with many inconsistencies which, in the face of new studies, are becoming increasingly more difficult to reconcile. The argument pivots on the before-mentioned degree of contribution of central versus peripheral factors in the overall control of the circulatory response to exercise (for reviews, see [1–4]).

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Furst, B. (2014). Cardiovascular Response During Exercise. In: The Heart and Circulation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5277-4_17

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