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Acute Impact of Retrograde Shear Rate on Brachial and Superficial Femoral Artery Flow-mediated Dilation in Humans

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Journal Physiol Rep
Specialty Physiology
Date 2014 Apr 19
PMID 24744872
Citations 32
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Abstract

Retrograde shear rate (SR) in the brachial artery (BA) is associated with endothelial dysfunction; a precursor to atherosclerosis. The BA does not typically manifest clinical atherosclerosis, whereas the superficial femoral artery (SFA) is more prone to developing plaque. Examine whether the impact of incremental levels of retrograde SR differs between atherosclerosis-prone (i.e., SFA) and -resistant vessels (i.e., BA) in healthy men. Thirteen healthy young men reported three times to the laboratory. We examined BA flow-mediated dilation (FMD) before and after 30-min exposure to cuff inflation around the forearm at 0, 30, and 60 mmHg, to manipulate retrograde SR. Subsequently, the 30-min intervention was repeated in the SFA, using the same cuff pressure as in the forearm. Order of testing (vessel and intervention) was randomized among subjects. We found a dose-dependent increase in retrograde SR with 30 and 60 mmHg cuff inflation, which was present in both the BA and SFA (all P < 0.05). BA and SFA FMD decreased after the 30-min intervention ("time": P = 0.012), and this was dependent on cuff pressure ("cuff × time": P = 0.024). A significant decrease in FMD was observed after 60 mmHg only and this change was similarly present in both arteries ("time × artery": P = 0.227). Moreover, the BA and SFA demonstrate a similar relationship between changes in retrograde SR and FMD (r = 0.498 and 0.475, respectively). Our study demonstrates that acute exposure to an increase in retrograde shear leads to comparable decreases in FMD in atherosclerotic-prone and -resistant conduit arteries in humans.

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