Seasonal Acclimatization in Summer versus Winter to Changes in the Sweating Response during Passive Heating in Korean Young Adult Men

• 영문명: Seasonal Acclimatization in Summer versus Winter to Changes in the Sweating Response during Passive Heating in Korean Young Adult Men
• 발행기관: 대한생리학회-대한약리학회
• 저자명: Jeong-Beom Lee Tae-Wook Kim Young-Ki Min Hun-Mo Yang
• 간행물 정보: 『The Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology』제19권 제1호, 9~14쪽, 전체 6쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 의학일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.01.01

영문 초록

We investigated the sweating response during passive heating (partial submersion up to the umbilical line in 42±0.5oC water, 30 min) after summer and winter seasonal acclimatization (SA). Testing was performed in July during the summer, 2011 [summer-SA; temp, 25.6±1.8oC; relative humidity (RH), 82.1±8.2%] and in January during the winter, 2012 (winter-SA; temp, −2.7±2.9oC; RH, 65.0±13.1%) in Cheonan (126o52 N, 33.38 E), Republic of Korea. All experiments were carried out in an automated climatic chamber (temp, 25.0±0.5oC: RH, 60.0±3.0%). Fifteen healthy men (age, 23.4±2.5 years; height, 175.0±5.9 cm; weight, 65.3±6.1 kg) participated in the study. Local sweat onset time was delayed during winter-SA compared to that after summer-SA (p＜0.001). Local sweat volume, whole body sweat volume, and evaporative loss volume decreased significantly after winter-SA compared to those after summer-SA (p＜0.001). Changes in basal metabolic rate increased significantly after winter-SA (p＜0.001), and tympanic temperature and mean body temperature were significantly lower after summer-SA (p＜0.05). In conclusion, central sudomotor acitivity becomes sensitive to summer-SA and blunt to winter-SA in Rebubic of Korea. These results suggest that the body adjusts its temperature by economically controlling the sweating rate but does not lower the thermal dissipation rate through a more effective evaporation scheme after summer-SA than that after winter-SA.

키워드

Mean body temperature Passive heating Seasonal acclimatization Sweat onset time Tympanic temperature