Abstract-To date, no studies have investigated coronary vasomotor control of myocardial O 2 delivery (MDO 2 ) and its modulation by the autonomic nervous system in the porcine heart during treadmill exercise. We studied 8 chronically instrumented swine under resting conditions and during graded treadmill exercise. Exercise up to 85% to 90% of maximum heart rate produced an increase in myocardial O 2 consumption (MV O 2 ) from 163Ϯ16 mol/min (meanϮSE) at rest to 423Ϯ75 mol/min (PՅ0.05), which was paralleled by an increase in MDO 2 , so that myocardial O 2 extraction (79Ϯ1% at rest) and coronary venous O 2 tension (cvPO 2 , 23.7Ϯ1.0 mm Hg at rest) were maintained. -Adrenoceptor blockade blunted the exercise-induced increase of MDO 2 out of proportion compared with the attenuation of the exercise-induced increase in MV O 2 , so that O 2 extraction rose from 78Ϯ1% at rest to 83Ϯ1% during exercise and cvPO 2 fell from 23.5Ϯ0.9 to 19.6Ϯ1.1 mm Hg (both PՅ0.05). In contrast, ␣-adrenoceptor blockade, either in the absence or presence of -adrenoceptor blockade, had no effect on myocardial O 2 extraction or cvPO 2 at rest or during exercise. Muscarinic receptor blockade resulted in a decreased O 2 extraction and an increase in cvPO 2 at rest, an effect that waned during exercise. The vasodilation produced by muscarinic receptor blockade was likely due to an increased -adrenoceptor activity, since combined muscarinic and -adrenoceptor blockade produced similar changes in O 2 extraction and cvPO 2 , as did -adrenoceptor blockade alone. In conclusion, in swine myocardium, MV O 2 and MDO 2 are matched during exercise, which is the result of feed-forward -adrenergic vasodilation in conjunction with minimal ␣-adrenergic vasoconstriction. -Adrenergic vasodilation is due to an increase in sympathetic activity but may also be supported by withdrawal of muscarinic receptor-mediated inhibition of -adrenergic coronary vasodilation. The observation that cvPO 2 levels are maintained even during heavy exercise suggests that a decrease in cvPO 2 is not essential for coronary vasodilation during exercise. (Circ Res. 1998;82:1312-1322.)