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  • Title: Effect of vein pump activation upon muscle blood flow and venous pressure in the human leg.
    Author: Nielsen HV.
    Journal: Acta Physiol Scand; 1982 Apr; 114(4):481-5. PubMed ID: 7136779.
    Abstract:
    The effect of vein pump activation upon superficial venous pressure and blood flow in human skeletal muscle tissue was studied in 7 healthy subjects. Blood flow was measured in the anterior tibial muscle by the local 133Xe washout technique. The subjects were placed on a steeply tilted couch in nearly erect position. The vein pump in gastrocnemius-soleus muscles was activated by heel-raisings, and the anterior tibial muscle remained relaxed during this procedure. Blood flow in the resting anterior tibial muscle was constant before, during and after 20 heel-raisings per min. A more heavy exercise with 40 heel-raisings per min increased blood flow about 100%. This increase in blood flow was absent during venous stasis (40 mmHg), and in areas infiltrated with lidocaine. It is concluded, that intense dynamic exercise in gastrocnemius-soleus muscles, in erect humans, increased blood flow considerably in another crural muscle remaining in the resting state. The present study strongly suggests, that the observed increase in blood flow, was associated with a decrease in regional subfascial venous pressure to below the threshold level of the local sympathetic veno-arteriolar reflex.
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