Fitness Level-and Sex-Related Differences in Macrovascular and Microvascular Responses during Reactive Hyperemia.

L Rasica, EC Inglis, D Iannetta, RN Soares… - Medicine and science …, 2022 - europepmc.org
Purpose Reactive hyperemia (RH) is widely used for the investigation of macrovascular
(flow-mediated dilation, or FMD) and microvascular (near-infrared spectroscopy-vascular …

Metabolic and microvascular function assessed using near‐infrared spectroscopy with vascular occlusion in women: age differences and reliability

EM Rogers, NF Banks… - Experimental Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the test–retest reliability of, and age‐related differences in, markers of
skeletal muscle metabolism and microvascular function derived from the near‐infrared …

Effects of the menstrual and oral contraceptive cycle phases on microvascular reperfusion

AT Mattu, MJ MacInnis, PK Doyle‐Baker… - Experimental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
New Findings What is the central question of this study? What are the effects of the
menstrual (early follicular and mid‐luteal) or monophasic oral contraceptive (inactive‐and …

NIRS-Derived Muscle-Deoxygenation and Microvascular Reactivity During Occlusion–Reperfusion at Rest Are Associated With Whole-Body Aerobic Fitness

A Koutlas, I Smilios, EM Kokkinou… - … Quarterly for Exercise …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) indices during arterial occlusion–reperfusion
maneuver have been used to examine the muscle's oxidative metabolism and microvascular …

Tissue desaturation is not a major determinant of aging-related impairment in skeletal muscle reactive hyperemia: a retrospective analysis

TS Alvares, RN Soares - American Journal of Physiology …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Near-infrared spectroscopy combined with vascular occlusion test (NIRS-VOT) is a reactive
hyperemia technique for in vivo evaluation of skeletal muscle microvascular reactivity …

Comparison of analysis strategies to assess sex differences in microvascular reperfusion using near-infrared spectroscopy

RQ Landers-Ramos, KK McCully… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) vascular occlusion test (VOT) assesses
microvascular reperfusion. Two strategies have been used to quantify reperfusion following …

Comparison of skeletal muscle oxidative function in young, middle-aged, and older males and females with similar physical activity levels

RQ Landers-Ramos, K Merriman… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Optimal skeletal muscle oxidative function (microvascular reactivity and mitochondrial
capacity) is an integral part of healthy aging and is related to physical function and quality of …

Microvascular responses during reactive hyperemia assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy and arterial stiffness in young, middle-aged, and older women

M Horiuchi, K Okita - Microvascular Research, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigated the effects of age on microvascular responses during reactive hyperemia
and arterial stiffness in 13 young (22±1 years), 12 middle-aged (42±5 years), and 15 older …

The utility of the reperfusion rate of tissue oxygen saturation as a measure of vascular endothelial function in adolescents: reliability, validity and sensitivity

SH Kranen, RS Oliveira, B Bond, CA Williams… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-derived reperfusion rate of tissue
oxygen saturation (slope 2 StO2) may provide a surrogate measure of vascular function …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of the analysis strategy on the correlation between the NIRS reperfusion measures and the FMD response

RN Soares, GV de Oliveira, TS Alvares… - Microvascular …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate the correlation between near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-
derived measures of microvascular responses using a range of different analysis and flow …