The distribution of blood flow in the carotid and vertebral arteries during dynamic exercise in humans

Non‐technical summary  The mechanism underlying the plateau or relative decrease in cerebral blood flow during maximal incremental dynamic exercise remains unclear. We show that during graded dynamic exercise, the regulation of internal carotid artery blood flow was limited by a large increase in external carotid artery blood flow, one function of which is thermoregulation during heavy exercise. The mechanism of the plateau or decrease in internal carotid artery blood flow appears to be partly due to exercise‐induced redistribution of arterial blood flow to the head and brain.

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