Misa Yoshimoto, M.Sc.

Graduate School of Human-Culture, Nara Women’s University

 

Miss Misa Yoshimoto is a student in Ph.D. course of Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences at Nara Women’s University.  She graduated from the Faculty of Life Science & Human Technology at Nara Women’s University with a Bachelor degree in Food Science and nutrition in 2000.  Then she entered the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences at the same University and received the degree of Master of Science in 2002 under the Prof. K. Miki.  Her major research interests are in the neural regulation of cardiovascular function during exercise and sleep and has published several papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals.

 

Acute shift in baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity during exercise and sleep.

The arterial baroreflex is the primary closed-loop feedback mechanism participating in short-term control of systemic arterial pressure. We demonstrated that treadmill exercise shifted the baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity upward and to the right and REM-sleep induced a vertical suppression of the baroreflex curve.  These data suggest the baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity may be altered in state-dependent manner. Functional organization of the state-dependent changes in the baroreflex curve will be discussed.