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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2015 Jan;5(1):193–215. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c140005

Figure 15.

Figure 15

The is no association between muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and total peripheral resistance (TPR) in young women, however, there is a significant positive association in young men (not shown) and in postmenopausal women (left panels). After systemic β-blockade, where β-adrenergic vasodilation is attenuated, a positive association between MSNA and TPR emerges in young women (right panel). This suggests that β-adrenergic vasodilation blunts vascular transduction of the sympathetic nerves. Data from (43).