[A comparative study of external respiration, gas exchange and circulation during static and dynamic muscular loads].

Indices of external breathing, gas exchange, and circulation were studied during bicycle ergometry and static ergometry of 19 healthy male volunteers which were stopped at critical levels of heart rate, arterial pressure, ECG or subjective fatigue. The bicycle workload maximum averaged 210 Watts, the static ergometric, 224 kg/s. Both types of exercises were characterized by unidirectional shifting of the external breathing and gas exchange indices; however, they were less pronounced at static loads.

[Dynamics of the redistribution of human blood in response to lower body negative pressure].

During exposure to LBNP of -10 to -60 mm Hg variations in the blood filling of body segments were measured, using 59Fe labelled erythrocytes. The study was performed on 10 healthy volunteers each of which was exposed to six LBNP sessions (in recumbency). The data obtained were related to changes in the blood filling of various body segments (head, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, legs) which were most pronounced at LBNP -20 to -30 mm Hg.