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Enhanced flow-motion complexity of skin microvascular perfusion in Sherpas and lowlanders during ascent to high altitude
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019), Scientific Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- An increased and more effective microvascular perfusion is postulated to play a key role in the physiological adaptation of Sherpa highlanders to the hypobaric hypoxia encountered at high altitude. To investigate this, we used Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZC) analysis to explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of the variability of the skin microvascular blood flux (BF) signals measured at the forearm and finger, in 32 lowlanders (LL) and 46 Sherpa highlanders (SH) during the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition. Measurements were made at baseline (BL) (LL: London 35 m; SH: Kathmandu 1300 m) and at Everest base camp (LL and SH: EBC 5,300 m). We found that BF signal content increased with ascent to EBC in both SH and LL. At both altitudes, LZC of the BF signals was significantly higher in SH, and was related to local slow-wave flow-motion activity over multiple spatial and temporal scales. In SH, BF LZC was also positively associated with LZC of the simultaneously measured tissue oxygenation signals. These data provide robust mechanistic information of microvascular network functionality and flexibility during hypoxic exposure on ascent to high altitude. They demonstrate the importance of a sustained heterogeneity of network perfusion, associated with local vaso-control mechanisms, to effective tissue oxygenation during hypobaric hypoxia.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Acclimatization
lcsh:Medicine
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Hypoxic exposure
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Hypoxia
lcsh:Science
Skin
Multidisciplinary
Chemistry
Altitude
Microcirculation
lcsh:R
Blood flow
Effects of high altitude on humans
Oxygen
Microvascular perfusion
Base camp
Tissue oxygenation
Microvascular Network
Cardiology
Female
Hypobaric hypoxia
lcsh:Q
Biomedical engineering
Perfusion
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0d74552643761fb2b883866edd87669f