Study on Muscle Nerves and Exercise Responses
This study is looking at how special nerves in your muscles, called Group III/IV afferents, affect your breathing and body temperature when you exercise. These nerves send signals to your brain about what your muscles are doing. Researchers want to see if blocking these signals with a drug during cycling exercise changes how your airways respond and how much you sweat and your skin blood flow. They will measure these responses after two weeks. You can join if you are between 18 and 40 years old, physically active, and meet certain fitness levels. You cannot participate if you smoke, have asthma, diabetes, or certain other health conditions. The study aims to understand how these muscle nerves help your body handle the demands of exercise.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 15 participants. It involves exercise training with or without a medication that blocks Group III/IV afferent feedback.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your airway resistance, sweat rate, and skin blood flow will be measured at 2 weeks.
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What is the Role of Type III/IV Muscle Afferents in Airway Resistance and Thermoregulatory Responses to Exercise?
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07452094
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizonastudy coordinator listed
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- TRAVIS D GIBBONS, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Northern Arizona University
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What this trial measures
- Airway resistance2 weeks
Calculated based of work of breathing and ventilation flow rate
- Sweat rate2 weeks
Local eccrine sweat rates at 3 different sites
- Skin blood flow2 weeks
Skin blood flux measured at different skin sites