This study is investigating the role of histamine in generating adaptation to exercise
Exercise promotes and maintains healthy cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and metabolic function, but the signals and mechanisms which transduce these effects are poorly understood. Histamine plays a role in some of the positive benefits of exercise. The goal of this study is to determine the factors that regulate exercise's effects on endothelial and vascular function, with a focus on histamine released from mast cells in skeletal muscle. Participants will perform exercise or participate in interventions like heating that may replicate some of the effects of exercise. During most experiments, investigators will insert an intravenous catheter in an arm vein and microdialysis probes in the leg, collect dialysate from the microdialysis probe and blood from the vein, record noninvasive measures, and have the participants perform exercise or undergo heating.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
80
Subjects will complete a single bout of aerobic exercise.
Subjects will undergo either local heating with diathermy or whole body heating with far-infrared sauna.
Subjects will complete bouts of resistance and aerobic exercise.
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Percentage of mast cell degranulation
Beta-hexosaminidase release from mast cells in mast cell degranulation bioassay when exposed to intramuscular dialysate from exercising individuals
Time frame: One hour
Histamine concentration
Histamine concentration in intramuscular dialysate
Time frame: One hour
Histamine metabolites
Concentration of histamine metabolites in blood and urine
Time frame: 24 hours
Muscle perfusion
Skeletal muscle tissue oxygen index
Time frame: One hour
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Subjects will complete a single bout of aerobic exercise under placebo vs antihistamine conditions.