Manabu Shibasaki, Ph.D.

Research Associate in the Department of Life Science and Human Technology at the Nara Women's University

 

Dr. Manabu Shibasaki received a Ph.D. degree from Kobe University and received post-doctoral training with Dr. Crandall at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in the United States.  He is currently working at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas as a visiting research associate.  He is the author of 35 scientific papers in the area of thermoregulation.

 

 

Nonthermoregulatory modification of sweating and skin blood flow

 

Exercise and/or passive heat stress elevate internal and skin temperatures, which leads to increases of sweat rate and skin blood flow. Thermoregulatory responses to increased body temperature are characterized by the body temperature threshold and the sensitivity (slope as a function of the body temperature).  Independent of these thermal factors, however, a number of non-thermal factors have been shown to modulate sweating and cutaneous vascular responses.  This review summarizes the primary non-thermal ‘neural’ modifiers of sweat rate and skin blood flow related

to exercise and body fluid regulation.