Figure 1From: Effect of preceding exercise on cerebral and splanchnic vascular responses to mental taskProtocol of the present study. In the exercise trial, the subjects exercised for 30 min after 5 min of pre-treatment baseline. Fifteen minutes after the end of exercise, the subjects rested for 5 min for pre-task baseline measurement and then performed mental arithmetic (MA) for 5 min followed by 5 min of post-task measurement. In the control trial, the same subjects performed MA almost same time-sequence with exercise trial except for exercise.Back to article page