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  • Title: Thermoregulatory control of finger blood flow.
    Author: Wenger CB, Roberts MF, Nadel ER, Stolwijk JA.
    Journal: J Appl Physiol; 1975 Jun; 38(6):1078-82. PubMed ID: 1141121.
    Abstract:
    Three men exercised on a bicycle ergometer at 30, 50, asd 70 per cent of maximal aerobic power in ambient temperatures of 15, 25, and 35 degrees C with water vapor pressure less than 18 Torr. Exercies was used to vary internal temperature during as experiment, and different ambient temperatures were used to vary skin temperatures independently of internal temperature. Finger temperature was fixed at about 35.7 degrees C. Espohageal temperature (Tes) was measured with a thermocouple at the level of the left atrium, and mean skin temperature (Tsk) was calcualted from a weighted mean of thermocouple temperatures at eight skin sites. Finger blood flow (BF) was measured by electrocapacitance plethysmography. Although some subjects showed small and equivocal vasomotor effects of exercise, our data are well accounted for by an equation of the form BF equal to alTes + a2Tsk + b, independent of exercise intensity. For these subjects, the ratios a1/a2 (5.9, 8.6, 9.4) were similar to the ratios of the corresponding coefficients recently reported for thermaoregulatory sweating (8.6, 10.4) and for forearm blood flow (9.6).
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