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  • 标题:Thermoregulatory Efficiency is Increased after Heat Acclimation in Tropical Natives
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  • 作者:Flávio C. Magalhães ; Renata L. F. Passos ; Michele A. Fonseca
  • 期刊名称:Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science
  • 印刷版ISSN:1345-3475
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:29
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-12
  • DOI:10.2114/jpa2.29.1
  • 出版社:Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology
  • 摘要:

    To evaluate the effects of heat acclimation on sweat rate redistribution and thermodynamic parameters, 9 tropical native volunteers were submitted to 11 days of exercise-heat exposures (40±0°C and 45.1±0.2% relative humidity). Sudomotor function was evaluated by measuring total and local (forehead, chest, arm, forearm, and thigh) sweat rates, local sweat sodium concentration, and mean skin and rectal temperatures. We also calculated heat production (H), heat storage (S), heat exchange by radiation (R) and by convection (C), evaporated sweat (Esw), sweating efficiency (ηsw), skin wettedness (wsk), and the ratio between the heat storage and the sum of heat production and heat gain s by radiation and convection (S/(H+R+C)). The heat acclimation increased the whole-body sweat rate and reduced the mean skin temperature. There were changes in the local sweat rate patterns: on the arm, forearm, and thigh it increased significantly from day 1 to day 11 (all p <0.05) and the sweat rates from the forehead and the chest showed a small nonsignificant increase ( p =0.34 and 0.17, respectively). The relative increase of local sweat rates on day 11 was not different among the sites; however, when comparing the limbs (arm, forearm, and thigh) with the trunk (forehead and chest), there was a significant higher increase in the limbs (32±5%) in comparison to the trunk (11±2%, p =0.001). After the heat acclimation period we observed higher wsk and Esw and reduced S/(H+R+C), meaning greater thermoregulatory efficiency. The increase in the limb sweat rate, but not the increase in the trunk sweat rate, correlated with the increased wsk, Esw, and reduced S/(H+R+C) ( p <0.05 to all). Altogether, it can be concluded that heat acclimation increased the limbs' sweat rates in tropical natives and that this increase led to increased loss of heat through evaporation of sweat and this higher sweat evaporation was related to higher thermoregulatory efficiency.

  • 关键词:sweat function; heat acclimation; facilitated sweat evaporation
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