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Walther LM, Wirtz PH. Physiological reactivity to acute mental stress in essential hypertension-a systematic review. Front Cardiovasc Med 2023; 10:1215710. [PMID: 37636310 PMCID: PMC10450926 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1215710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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Objective Exaggerated physiological reactions to acute mental stress (AMS) are associated with hypertension (development) and have been proposed to play an important role in mediating the cardiovascular disease risk with hypertension. A variety of studies compared physiological reactivity to AMS between essential hypertensive (HT) and normotensive (NT) individuals. However, a systematic review of studies across stress-reactive physiological systems including intermediate biological risk factors for cardiovascular diseases is lacking. Methods We conducted a systematic literature search (PubMed) for original articles and short reports, published in English language in peer-reviewed journals in November and December 2022. We targeted studies comparing the reactivity between essential HT and NT to AMS in terms of cognitive tasks, public speaking tasks, or the combination of both, in at least one of the predefined stress-reactive physiological systems. Results We included a total of 58 publications. The majority of studies investigated physiological reactivity to mental stressors of mild or moderate intensity. Whereas HT seem to exhibit increased reactivity in response to mild or moderate AMS only under certain conditions (i.e., in response to mild mental stressors with specific characteristics, in an early hyperkinetic stage of HT, or with respect to certain stress systems), increased physiological reactivity in HT as compared to NT to AMS of strong intensity was observed across all investigated stress-reactive physiological systems. Conclusion Overall, this systematic review supports the proposed and expected generalized physiological hyperreactivity to AMS with essential hypertension, in particular to strong mental stress. Moreover, we discuss potential underlying mechanisms and highlight open questions for future research of importance for the comprehensive understanding of the observed hyperreactivity to AMS in essential hypertension.
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- Lisa-Marie Walther
- Biological Work and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Biological Work and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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Li D, Liu K, Davis H, Robertson C, Neely OC, Tarafdar A, Li N, Lefkimmiatis K, Zaccolo M, Paterson DJ. Abnormal Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling at the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane In Sympathetic Neurons During the Early Stages of Hypertension. Hypertension 2022; 79:1374-1384. [PMID: 35506379 PMCID: PMC9172895 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.18882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Disruption of cyclic nucleotide signaling in sympathetic postganglionic neurons contributes to impaired intracellular calcium handling (Ca2+) and the development of dysautonomia during the early stages of hypertension, although how this occurs is poorly understood. Emerging evidence supports the uncoupling of signalosomes in distinct cellular compartments involving cyclic nucleotide–sensitive PDEs (phosphodiesterases), which may underpin the autonomic phenotype in stellate neurons.
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- Dan Li
- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.,Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, United Kingdom (H.D.)
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI), Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building (N.L.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy (K.L.).,Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy (K.L.)
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (D.L., K.L., H.D., C.R., O.C.N., A.T., N.L., M.Z., D.J.P.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Birba A, Santamaría-García H, Prado P, Cruzat J, Ballesteros AS, Legaz A, Fittipaldi S, Duran-Aniotz C, Slachevsky A, Santibañez R, Sigman M, García AM, Whelan R, Moguilner S, Ibáñez A. Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Frontotemporal Dementia. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 92:54-67. [PMID: 35491275 PMCID: PMC11184918 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND The predictive coding theory of allostatic-interoceptive load states that brain networks mediating autonomic regulation and interoceptive-exteroceptive balance regulate the internal milieu to anticipate future needs and environmental demands. These functions seem to be distinctly compromised in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), including alterations of the allostatic-interoceptive network (AIN). Here, we hypothesize that bvFTD is typified by an allostatic-interoceptive overload. METHODS We assessed resting-state heartbeat evoked potential (rsHEP) modulation as well as its behavioral and multimodal neuroimaging correlates in patients with bvFTD relative to healthy control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease (N = 94). We measured 1) resting-state electroencephalography (to assess the rsHEP, prompted by visceral inputs and modulated by internal body sensing), 2) associations between rsHEP and its neural generators (source location), 3) cognitive disturbances (cognitive state, executive functions, facial emotion recognition), 4) brain atrophy, and 5) resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging functional connectivity (AIN vs. control networks). RESULTS Relative to healthy control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease, patients with bvFTD presented more negative rsHEP amplitudes with sources in critical hubs of the AIN (insula, amygdala, somatosensory cortex, hippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex). This exacerbated rsHEP modulation selectively predicted the patients' cognitive profile (including cognitive decline, executive dysfunction, and emotional impairments). In addition, increased rsHEP modulation in bvFTD was associated with decreased brain volume and connectivity of the AIN. Machine learning results confirmed AIN specificity in predicting the bvFTD group. CONCLUSIONS Altogether, these results suggest that bvFTD may be characterized by an allostatic-interoceptive overload manifested in ongoing electrophysiological markers, brain atrophy, functional networks, and cognition.
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- Agustina Birba
- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- PhD Neuroscience Program, Physiology and Psychiatry Departments, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia; Memory and Cognition Center Intellectus, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Center for Geroscience, Brain Health and Metabolism, Santiago, Chile; Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Physiopathology Department, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Santiago, Chile; Memory and Neuropsychiatric Clinic, Neurology Department, Hospital del Salvador and Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Servicio de Neurología, Departamento de Medicina, Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Santiago, Chile; Neurology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Facultad de Lenguas y Educación, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Altered Cardiovascular Reactivity to and Recovery from Cold Face Test-Induced Parasympathetic Stimulation in Essential Hypertension. J Clin Med 2021; 10:jcm10122714. [PMID: 34205387 PMCID: PMC8235104 DOI: 10.3390/jcm10122714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Essential hypertension is associated with increased sympathetic and diminished parasympathetic activity as well as impaired reactivity to sympathetic stimulation. However, reactivity and recovery from parasympathetic stimulation in hypertension are unknown. We investigated reactivity and recovery to primarily parasympathetic stimulation by Cold Face Test (CFT) in essential hypertension. Moreover, we tested whether chronic stress modulates CFT-reactivity dependent on hypertension status. The CFT was conducted by applying a cold face-mask for 2 min in 24 unmedicated, otherwise healthy hypertensive men and in 24 normotensive controls. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were measured repeatedly. Chronic stress was assessed with the Trier-Inventory-for-Chronic-Stress-Screening-Scale. Hypertensives did not exhibit diastolic BP decreases after CFT-cessation (p = 0.59) as did normotensives (p = 0.002) and failed to show HR decreases in immediate response to CFT (p = 0.62) when compared to normotensives (p < 0.001). Systolic BP reactivity and recovery patterns did not differ between hypertensives and normotensives (p = 0.44). Chronic stress moderated HR (p = 0.045) but not BP CFT-reactivity (p′s > 0.64) with chronically stressed normotensives showing similar HR reactivity as hypertensives. Our findings indicate impaired diastolic BP and HR reactivity to and recovery from CFT in hypertensives and a moderating effect of chronic stress on HR reactivity potentially reflecting reduced relaxation ability of the cardiovascular system.
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Park YJ, Lim UN, Park S, Shin JH. Effect of Brain and Pulse Waves on Safety Consciousness and Safety Commitment of Workers at Construction Sites. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21082753. [PMID: 33924709 PMCID: PMC8069795 DOI: 10.3390/s21082753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Even though individual mental and health status largely affects the safety in industrial sites, most studies for preventing industrial accidents are mainly focused on external factors such as regulations, education, etc. In this study, the effect of individual factors on safety (i.e., safety consciousness and safety commitment) was analyzed by collecting brainwave and pulse data at construction sites where industrial accidents have occurred with the highest percentage. The effects of brain stress, concentration, brain activity, and left and right brain imbalance on safety accidents were evaluated through brain wave measurements. In addition, the effects of cumulative fatigue, physical vitality, autonomic nerve health, and autonomic balance were identified through pulse wave measurements. Data were acquired for 180 construction workers at various construction sites, and the workers were classified into three grades according to factors that affected safety accidents at construction sites. Then, the safety consciousness and safety commitment levels of workers corresponding to each grade of the influence factors were evaluated by conducting a questionnaire on safety consciousness and safety commitment. As a result, the characteristics of brain and pulse waves required to improve safety consciousness and safety commitment ability of workers at construction sites were explored.
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- Young-Jun Park
- Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy, Seoul KS013, Korea; (Y.-J.P.); (S.P.)
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- Brain Based Coaching & Counseling Center, Seoul KS013, Korea;
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy, Seoul KS013, Korea; (Y.-J.P.); (S.P.)
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- Department of Brain Education, University of Brain Education, Cheonan KS002, Korea
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-41-529-2760
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Ferrer MH, Severin R, Lefort H, Jacob S, Trousselard M. [Improving parasympathetic functioning to contain the inflammatory response of COVID-19 infection]. SOINS; LA REVUE DE REFERENCE INFIRMIERE 2020; 65:63-65. [PMID: 33357622 DOI: 10.1016/s0038-0814(20)30248-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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COVID-19 infection results in an unrestrained inflammatory reaction in serious cases. The autonomic nervous system (ANS), in particular the parasympathetic branch, helps to regulate the inflammatory response. A dysfunction of this branch, frequent in people at risk of developing COVID-19, favours a pro-inflammatory effect. Reinforcing and stimulating the parasympathetic ANS is possible and accessible to paramedical and medical professionals.
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- Marie-Hélène Ferrer
- Département des neurosciences et sciences cognitives, unité de neurophysiologie du stress, institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, BP 73, 91223 Brétigny-sur-Orge cedex, France.
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- Hôpital d'instruction des armées Legouest, 27 avenue de Plantières, BP 90001, 57077 Metz cedex 3, France
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- Département des neurosciences et sciences cognitives, unité de neurophysiologie du stress, institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, BP 73, 91223 Brétigny-sur-Orge cedex, France
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- Département des neurosciences et sciences cognitives, unité de neurophysiologie du stress, institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, BP 73, 91223 Brétigny-sur-Orge cedex, France
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Legaz A, Yoris A, Sedeño L, Abrevaya S, Martorell M, Alifano F, García AM, Ibañez A. Heart-brain interactions during social and cognitive stress in hypertensive disease: A multidimensional approach. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 55:2836-2850. [PMID: 32965070 PMCID: PMC8231407 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Hypertensive disease (HTD), a prominent risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, is characterized by elevated stress-proneness. Since stress levels are underpinned by both cardiac and neural factors, multidimensional insights are required to robustly understand their disruption in HTD. Yet, despite their crucial relevance, heart rate variability (HRV) and multimodal neurocognitive markers of stress in HTD remain controversial and unexplored respectively. To bridge this gap, we studied cardiodynamic as well as electrophysiological and neuroanatomical measures of stress in HTD patients and healthy controls. Both groups performed the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), a validated stress-inducing task comprising a baseline and a mental stress period. During both stages, we assessed a sensitive HRV parameter (the low frequency/high frequency [LF/HF ratio]) and an online neurophysiological measure (the heartbeat-evoked potential [HEP]). Also, we obtained neuroanatomical data via voxel-based morphometry (VBM) for correlation with online markers. Relative to controls, HTD patients exhibited increased LF/HF ratio and greater HEP modulations during baseline, reduced changes between baseline and stress periods, and lack of significant stress-related HRV modulations associated with the grey matter volume of putative frontrostriatal regions. Briefly, HTD patients presented signs of stress-related autonomic imbalance, reflected in a potential basal stress overload and a lack of responsiveness to acute psychosocial stress, accompanied by neurophysiological and neuroanatomical alterations. These multimodal insights underscore the relevance of neurocognitive data for developing innovations in the characterization, prognosis and treatment of HTD and other conditions with autonomic imbalance. More generally, these findings may offer new insights into heart-brain interactions.
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- Agustina Legaz
- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Faculty of Education, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.,Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.,Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia.,Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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Finke JB, Schächinger H. Central Sympathetic Nervous System Effects on Cognitive-Motor Performance. Exp Psychol 2020; 67:77-87. [DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Abstract. The intriguing interplay between acute stress physiology and cognitive processes has long been noted. However, while stress-induced release of glucocorticoids has repeatedly been shown to impact brain mechanisms underlying cognition and memory, less experimental research addressed the effects of stress-induced central sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation on cognitive performance. Moreover, despite the long-standing notion that the way performance is modulated by arousal may crucially depend on task complexity, mechanistic research demonstrating a direct, causal influence of altered SNS activity is scarce. Twelve healthy men participated in a placebo-controlled, pharmacologic dose–response study involving three within-subject assessments (1-week intervals). Subjective and objective indices of SNS activity as well as reaction time (RT) in three different tasks varying in cognitive demand (simple RT, choice RT, and verbal RT in complex mental arithmetic) were assessed during modulation of central SNS tone by intravenous infusions of dexmedetomidine (alpha2-agonist), yohimbine (alpha2-antagonist), and placebo. Cognitive performance was negatively affected by alpha2-agonism in all task conditions. By contrast, administration of yohimbine improved simple RT, while diminishing complex RT, supporting the assumption of a nonlinear way of action depending on task characteristics. Our results highlight the consequences of central (noradrenergic) SNS activation for cognitive-motor performance in RT tasks of varying complexity.
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- Johannes B. Finke
- Institute of Psychobiology, Department of Clinical Psychophysiology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
- Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychobiology, Department of Clinical Psychophysiology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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Usselman CW, Adler TE, Coovadia Y, Leone C, Paidas MJ, Stachenfeld NS. A recent history of preeclampsia is associated with elevated central pulse wave velocity and muscle sympathetic outflow. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 318:H581-H589. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00578.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We demonstrate that resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity is elevated in women with a recent history of preeclampsia relative to women who have recently had uncomplicated pregnancies and without a history of preeclampsia. Structural changes in the central arteries are associated with arterial stiffness following preeclampsia, independent of changes in the sympathetic nervous system. The structural changes are observed in these relatively young previously preeclamptic women, indicating elevated cardiovascular risk. Our data suggest that with aging (and the gradual loss of vascular protection for women, as established by others), this risk will become exaggerated compared with women who have had normal pregnancies.
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- Charlotte W. Usselman
- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- McGill Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Role of the prefrontal lobe in young normotensives with a family history of hypertension and hypertensives. Pflugers Arch 2019; 471:1397-1406. [PMID: 31624956 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-019-02313-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Accumulating evidence has demonstrated a significant relationship between prefrontal lobe and hypertension. Elevated blood pressure is usually associated with a prefrontal hemodynamic abnormality. However, the detailed process is still unclear. In this study, we designed a startle protocol and tested the response of the cerebral cortex and cardiovascular system in young normotensive subjects with a family history of hypertension (FH+). Additionally, the cold forehead test (CFT) was performed in hypertensive subjects. In total, 40 young normotensive subjects (21 with FH+ and 19 without a family history of hypertension (FH-)) and 49 middle-aged subjects (21 normotensives (NT) and 28 hypertensives (HT)) were recruited. Our results showed that the magnitude of startle-evoked alpha oscillation at the parasympathetic-related prefrontal cortex (FP1 and FP2) in the FH+ group was significantly smaller than in the FH- group. Acute bradycardia (RRI increase) was observed in FH- subjects but disappeared in the FH+ group. The coupling between instant cardiac acute response (increased RRI) and prefrontal arousal (magnitude of evoked oscillation) was significantly weakened in the FH+ group compared with the FH- group. Furthermore, the decrease in HR induced by parasympathetic outflow during CFT was absent in HT subjects. Hence, we concluded that the impairment of parasympathetic outflow derived from the prefrontal lobe occurs in both healthy young offspring of hypertensive and hypertensive patients.
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Santana MDR, Martiniano EC, Monteiro LRL, Oliveira MDSSD, Valenti VE, Garner DM, Vanderlei FM, Abreu LCD. Cortisol Levels and Autonomic Control of Heart Rate in Healthy Subjects. ACTA MEDICA MARTINIANA 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/acm-2017-0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Introduction: There is an increase in level of stress in the general population because of the social, personal and professional demands. Currently, there are only simple tools that can safely measure this stress such as levels of cortisol and heart rate variability (HRV). Objective: To analyze the relationship between salivary cortisol and the cardiac autonomic modulation. Methods: A total of fifty-one male and female subjects between 18 and 40 years old were evaluated. Saliva collection was achieved for the salivary cortisol dosage. The collection was performed through the SalivetteR tube. After this collection, the median cortisol levels (0.24 ug/dl) were analyzed and the volunteers were divided into two groups: i) cortisol below the mediane ii) cortisol above the median. After this division, each group consisted of 25 volunteers and then was verified the following information: age, gender, weight, height, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure. Shortly thereafter was assessment of cardiac autonomic modulation por meio da HRV. The Polar RS800cx heart rate receiver was placed on the chest of the volunteers, in the vicinity of the distal third of the sternum. The volunteers were instructed to remain in rest with spontaneous breathing in dorsal position for 20 minutes. HRV analysis included geometric, time and frequency domain indices. Results: There were no statistical differences for the two groups regarding systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, RR intervals or linear and frequency indices for the volunteers. In addition, also there was no correlation the cortisol with the analyzed variables (SAP, p=0.460; DAP, p = 0.270; HR, p = 0.360; RR, p = 0.380; SDNN, p = 0.510; rMSSD, p = 0.660; pNN50, p = 0.820; RRtri, p = 0.170; TINN, p = 0.470; SD1, p = 0.650; SD2, p = 0.500; LF [ms2], p = 0.880; LF [nu], p = 0.970; HF [ms2], p = 0.870; HF [nu], p = 0.960; LF/HF, p = 0.380 Conclusion: Heart rate variability autonomic control was unchanged in healthy subjects with physiological distribution of salivary cortisol levels. There was no association between normal salivary cortisol and resting autonomic regulation of heart rate.
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- Milana Drumond Ramos Santana
- Laboratory of Study Design and Scientific Writing, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André , SP, Brazil
- Faculty of Juazeiro do Norte, Juazeiro do Norte , CE, Brazil
- Post-Doctoral Program of the Faculty of Medicine of ABC, Santo André , SP, Brazil
- Faculdade de Juazeiro do Norte. Rua Sao Francisco, 1224, Juazeiro do Norte , CE, Brazil
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- Post-Graduate Program in Physiotherapy, UNESP, Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
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- Cardiorespiratory Research Group, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Laboratory of Study Design and Scientific Writing, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André , SP, Brazil
- Post-Doctoral Program of the Faculty of Medicine of ABC, Santo André , SP, Brazil
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Musical Auditory Stimulation Influences Heart Rate Autonomic Responses to Endodontic Treatment. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2017; 2017:4847869. [PMID: 28182118 PMCID: PMC5274691 DOI: 10.1155/2017/4847869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Revised: 10/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We aimed to evaluate the acute effect of musical auditory stimulation on heart rate autonomic regulation during endodontic treatment. The study included 50 subjects from either gender between 18 and 40 years old, diagnosed with irreversible pulpitis or pulp necrosis of the upper front teeth and endodontic treatment indication. HRV was recorded 10 minutes before (T1), during (T2), and immediately (T3 and T4) after endodontic treatment. The volunteers were randomly divided into two equal groups: exposed to music (during T2, T3, and T4) or not. We found no difference regarding salivary cortisol and anxiety score. In the group with musical stimulation heart rate decreased in T3 compared to T1 and mean RR interval increased in T2 and T3 compared to T1. SDNN and TINN indices decreased in T3 compared to T4, the RMSSD and SD1 increased in T4 compared to T1, the SD2 increased compared to T3, and LF (low frequency band) increased in T4 compared to T1 and T3. In the control group, only RMSSD and SD1 increased in T3 compared to T1. Musical auditory stimulation enhanced heart rate autonomic modulation during endodontic treatment.
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Bowman A, Dowell FJ, Evans NP. 'The effect of different genres of music on the stress levels of kennelled dogs'. Physiol Behav 2017; 171:207-215. [PMID: 28093218 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Revised: 01/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Classical music has been shown to reduce stress in kennelled dogs; however, rapid habituation of dogs to this form of auditory enrichment has also been demonstrated. The current study investigated the physiological and behavioural response of kennelled dogs (n=38) to medium-term (5days) auditory enrichment with five different genres of music including Soft Rock, Motown, Pop, Reggae and Classical, to determine whether increasing the variety of auditory stimulation reduces the level of habituation to auditory enrichment. Dogs were found to spend significantly more time lying and significantly less time standing when music was played, regardless of genre. There was no observable effect of music on barking, however, dogs were significantly (z=2.2, P<0.05) more likely to bark following cessation of auditory enrichment. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) was significantly higher, indicative of decreased stress, when dogs were played Soft Rock and Reggae, with a lesser effect observed when Motown, Pop and Classical genres were played. Relative to the silent period prior to auditory enrichment, urinary cortisol:creatanine (UCCR) values were significantly higher during Soft Rock (t=2.781, P<0.01) and the second silent control period following auditory enrichment (t=2.46, P<0.05). Despite the mixed response to different genres, the physiological and behavioural changes observed remained constant over the 5d of enrichment suggesting that the effect of habituation may be reduced by increasing the variety of auditory enrichment provided.
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- A Bowman
- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary and LIFE Sciences, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Rd, Glasgow G61 1QH, United Kingdom.
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- Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Scottish SPCA), Kingseat Road, Halbeath, Dunfermline KY11 8RY, United Kingdom
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- Division of Veterinary Science and Education, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Rd, Glasgow G61 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Rd, Glasgow G61 1QH, United Kingdom
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Separating the effect of respiration on the heart rate variability using Granger's causality and linear filtering. Biomed Signal Process Control 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2016.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Kalla M, Herring N, Paterson DJ. Cardiac sympatho-vagal balance and ventricular arrhythmia. Auton Neurosci 2016; 199:29-37. [PMID: 27590099 PMCID: PMC5334443 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2016.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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A hallmark of cardiovascular disease is cardiac autonomic dysregulation. The phenotype of impaired parasympathetic responsiveness and sympathetic hyperactivity in experimental animal models is also well documented in large scale human studies in the setting of heart failure and myocardial infarction, and is predictive of morbidity and mortality. Despite advances in emergency revascularisation strategies for myocardial infarction, device therapy for heart failure and secondary prevention pharmacotherapies, mortality from malignant ventricular arrhythmia remains high. Patients at highest risk or those with haemodynamically significant ventricular arrhythmia can be treated with catheter ablation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators, but the morbidity and reduction in quality of life due to the burden of ventricular arrhythmia and shock therapy persists. Therefore, future therapies must aim to target the underlying pathophysiology that contributes to the generation of ventricular arrhythmia. This review explores recent advances in mechanistic research in both limbs of the autonomic nervous system and potential avenues for translation into clinical therapy. In addition, we also discuss the relationship of these findings in the context of the reported efficacy of current neuromodulatory strategies in the management of ventricular arrhythmia. We review advances in mechanistic research in the cardiac autonomic nervous system. This is discussed in relation to neuromodulatory therapy for ventricular arrhythmia. Neuromodulation therapies can influence both neurotransmitters and co-transmitters. This may therefore improve on conventional medical treatment.
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- Corresponding author at: Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX13PT, UK.Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science CentreDept. of Physiology, Anatomy and GeneticsUniversity of OxfordParks RoadOX13PTUK
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Li D, Paterson DJ. Cyclic nucleotide regulation of cardiac sympatho-vagal responsiveness. J Physiol 2016; 594:3993-4008. [PMID: 26915722 DOI: 10.1113/jp271827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) are now recognized as important intracellular signalling molecules that modulate cardiac sympatho-vagal balance in the progression of heart disease. Recent studies have identified that a significant component of autonomic dysfunction associated with several cardiovascular pathologies resides at the end organ, and is coupled to impairment of cyclic nucleotide targeted pathways linked to abnormal intracellular calcium handling and cardiac neurotransmission. Emerging evidence also suggests that cyclic nucleotide coupled phosphodiesterases (PDEs) play a key role limiting the hydrolysis of cAMP and cGMP in disease, and as a consequence this influences the action of the nucleotide on its downstream biological target. In this review, we illustrate the action of nitric oxide-CAPON signalling and brain natriuretic peptide on cGMP and cAMP regulation of cardiac sympatho-vagal transmission in hypertension and ischaemic heart disease. Moreover, we address how PDE2A is now emerging as a major target that affects the efficacy of soluble/particulate guanylate cyclase coupling to cGMP in cardiac dysautonomia.
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- Dan Li
- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Building, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Building, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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Hong CH, Kuo TBJ, Huang BC, Lin YC, Kuo KL, Chern CM, Yang CCH. Cold Exposure Can Induce an Exaggerated Early-Morning Blood Pressure Surge in Young Prehypertensives. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0150136. [PMID: 26919177 PMCID: PMC4769082 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Prehypertension is related to a higher risk of cardiovascular events than normotension. Our previous study reported that cold exposure elevates the amplitude of the morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) and is associated with a sympathetic increase during the final sleep transition, which might be critical for sleep-related cardiovascular events in normotensives. However, few studies have explored the effects of cold exposure on autonomic function during sleep transitions and changes of autonomic function among prehypertensives. Therefore, we conducted an experiment for testing the effects of cold exposure on changes of autonomic function during sleep and the MBPS among young prehypertensives are more exaggerate than among young normotensives. The study groups consisted of 12 normotensive and 12 prehypertensive male adults with mean ages of 23.67 ± 0.70 and 25.25 ± 0.76 years, respectively. The subjects underwent cold (16°C) and warm (23°C) conditions randomly. The room temperature was maintained at either 23°C or 16°C by central air conditioning and recorded by a heat-sensitive sensor placed on the forehead and extended into the air. BP was measured every 30 minutes by using an autonomic BP monitor. Electroencephalograms, electrooculograms, electromyograms, electrocardiograms, and near body temperature were recorded by miniature polysomnography. Under cold exposure, a significantly higher amplitude of MBPS than under the warm condition among normotensives; however, this change was more exaggerated in prehypertensives. Furthermore, there was a significant decrease in parasympathetic-related RR and HF during the final sleep transition and a higher early-morning surge in BP and in LF% among prehypertensives, but no such change was found in normotensives. Our study supports that cold exposure might increase the risk of sleep-related cardiovascular events in prehypertensives.
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- Cian-Hui Hong
- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sleep Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sleep Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Translational and Interdisciplinary Medicine, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sleep Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Family Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sleep Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Santana MDR, Pita Neto IC, Martiniano EC, Monteiro LRL, Ramos JLS, Garner DM, Valenti VE, Abreu LCD. Non-linear indices of heart rate variability during endodontic treatment. Braz Oral Res 2016; 30:S1806-83242016000100220. [PMID: 26910016 DOI: 10.1590/1807-3107bor-2016.vol30.0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Dental treatment promotes psychosomatic change that can influence the procedure and compromise the general well-being of the patient. In this context, it highlights the importance of evaluating the function of the autonomic nervous system in individuals undergoing endodontic treatment. Thus, this manuscript aimed to analyse cardiac autonomic modulation, through non-linear indices of heart rate variability (HRV) during endodontic treatment. Analysis of 50 subjects of either sex aged between 18 and 40 years diagnosed with irreversible pulp necrosis of lower molars undergoing endodontic treatment was undertaken. We carried out fractal and symbolic analysis of HRV, which was recorded in the first session of the endodontic treatment at four intervals: T1: 0-10 min before the onset of the treatment session; T2: 0-10 min after the application of anaesthesia; T3: throughout the period of treatment; and T4: 0-30 min after the end of the treatment session. There was reduction of α1 in T2 compared to T1 and T4 (p < 0.0001). The α2 index also reduced in T2 compared to T3 (p = 0.0035). There was an increase in the α1/α2 ratio in T4 compared to T2 and T3 (p = 0.0003). It was found that 0V% was significantly lower in T2 (p = 0.002), while 2UV% was significantly higher (p < 0.0001) when compared to other points in time. In conclusion, HRV is reduced during endodontic treatment, and after applying local anaesthetic the parasympathetic component of HRV increases. These data indicate that endodontic treatment acutely overcharges the heart, supporting the stress involved in this situation.
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- Milana Drumond Ramos Santana
- Laboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Científica, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Científica, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Odontologia, Departamento de Saúde, Faculdade de Juazeiro do Norte, Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Odontologia, Departamento de Saúde, Faculdade de Juazeiro do Norte, Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Estudos do Sistema Nervoso Autônomo, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Marília, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Científica, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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Berg T. Voltage-Sensitive K(+) Channels Inhibit Parasympathetic Ganglion Transmission and Vagal Control of Heart Rate in Hypertensive Rats. Front Neurol 2015; 6:260. [PMID: 26696959 PMCID: PMC4672051 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Parasympathetic withdrawal plays an important role in the autonomic dysfunctions in hypertension. Since hyperpolarizing, voltage-sensitive K+ channels (KV) hamper transmitter release, elevated KV-activity may explain the disturbed vagal control of heart rate (HR) in hypertension. Here, the KV inhibitor 3,4-diaminopyridine was used to demonstrate the impact of KV on autonomic HR control. Cardiac output and HR were recorded by a flow probe on the ascending aorta in anesthetized, normotensive (WKY), and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and blood pressure by a femoral artery catheter. 3,4-diaminopyridine induced an initial bradycardia, which was greater in SHR than in WKY, followed by sustained tachycardia in both strains. The initial bradycardia was eliminated by acetylcholine synthesis inhibitor (hemicholinium-3) and nicotinic receptor antagonist/ganglion blocker (hexamethonium), and reversed to tachycardia by muscarinic receptor (mAchR) antagonist (atropine). The latter was abolished by sympatho-inhibition (reserpine). Reserpine also eliminated the late, 3,4-diaminopyridine-induced tachycardia in WKY, but induced a sustained atropine-sensitive bradycardia in SHR. Inhibition of the parasympathetic component with hemicholinium-3, hexamethonium, or atropine enhanced the late tachycardia in SHR, whereas hexamethonium reduced the tachycardia in WKY. In conclusion, 3,4-diaminopyridine-induced acetylcholine release, and thus enhanced parasympathetic ganglion transmission, with subsequent mAchR activation and bradycardia. 3,4-diaminopyridine also activated tachycardia, initially by enhancing sympathetic ganglion transmission, subsequently by activation of norepinephrine release from sympathetic nerve terminals. The 3,4-diaminopyridine-induced parasympathetic activation was stronger and more sustained in SHR, demonstrating an enhanced inhibitory control of KV on parasympathetic ganglion transmission. This enhanced KV activity may explain the dysfunctional vagal HR control in SHR.
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- Torill Berg
- Division of Physiology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute for Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway
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Sharif H, Millar PJ, Incognito AV, Ditor DS. Non-invasive electrocardiographic assessments of cardiac autonomic modulation in individuals with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 2015; 54:166-71. [DOI: 10.1038/sc.2015.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Revised: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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An update on renal artery denervation and its clinical impact on hypertensive disease. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:607079. [PMID: 26495305 PMCID: PMC4606151 DOI: 10.1155/2015/607079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Hypertension is a globally prevalent condition, with a heavy clinical and economic burden. It is the predominant risk factor for premature cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and is associated with a variety of clinical disorders including stroke, congestive cardiac failure, ischaemic heart disease, chronic renal failure, and peripheral arterial disease. A significant subset of hypertensive patients have resistant hypertensive disease. In this group of patients, catheter-based renal artery denervation has emerged as a potential therapy, with favourable clinical efficacy and safety in early trials. Additional benefits of this therapy are also being identified and include effects on left ventricular remodeling, cardiac performance, and symptom status in congestive cardiac failure. Utility of renal denervation for the management of resistant hypertension, however, has become controversial since the release of the Symplicity HTN-3 trial, the first large-scale blinded randomised study investigating the efficacy and safety of renal artery denervation. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the history, utility, and clinical efficacy of renal artery denervation technology, including an in-depth appraisal of the current literature and principal trials.
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Ji L, Liu C, Li P, Wang X, Yan C, Liu C. Comparison of heart rate variability between resting state and external-cuff-inflation-and-deflation state: a pilot study. Physiol Meas 2015; 36:2135-46. [PMID: 26333766 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/36/10/2135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Heart rate variability (HRV) has been widely used in clinical research to provide an insight into the autonomic control of the cardiovascular system. Measurement of HRV is generally performed under a relaxed resting state. The effects of other conditions on HRV measurement, such as running, mountaineering, head-up tilt, etc, have also been investigated. This study aimed to explore whether an inflation-and-deflation process applied to a unilateral upper arm cuff would influence the HRV measurement. Fifty healthy young volunteers aged between 21 and 30 were enrolled in this study. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals were recorded for each subject over a five minute resting state followed by a five minute external-cuff-inflation-and-deflation state (ECID state). A one minute gap was scheduled between the two measurements. Consecutive RR intervals in the ECG were extracted automatically to form the HRV data for each of the two states. Time domain (SDNN, RMSSD and PNN50), frequency domain (LFn, HFn and LF/HF) and nonlinear (VLI, VAI and SampEn) HRV indices were analyzed and compared between the two states. In addition, the effects of mean artery pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) on the aforementioned HRV indices were assessed for the two states, respectively, by Pearson correlation analysis. The results showed no significant difference in all aforementioned HRV indices between the resting and the ECID states (all p > 0.05). The corresponding HRV indices had significant positive correlation (all p < 0.01) between the two states. None of the indices showed MAP-related change (all p > 0.05) for either state. Besides, none of the indices showed HR-related change (all p > 0.05) for either state except the index of VLI in the resting state. To conclude, this pilot study suggested that the applied ECID process hardly influenced those commonly used HRV indices. It would thus be applicable to simultaneously measure both blood pressure and HRV indices in clinical practice.
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- Lizhen Ji
- School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, People's Republic of China
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Correlation of serum uric acid with heart rate variability in hypertension. HIPERTENSION Y RIESGO VASCULAR 2015; 32:133-41. [PMID: 26486461 DOI: 10.1016/j.hipert.2015.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 06/01/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Autonomic dysfunction with dominant sympathetic tone is a common finding among hypertensives and prehypertensives. Uric acid is one of the independent predictors of hypertension. There are very few studies which have shown a relationship between the autonomic tone and uric acid generation pathway among prehypertensives and hypertensives. Aim of the study was to estimate and correlate serum uric acid levels with autonomic function as measured by heart rate variability (HRV) among prehypertensives and hypertensives. METHODS Cross-sectional study of three groups, prehypertensives, hypertensives and normotensives, classified according to Joint National Committee VII criteria, with 35 subjects in each group were included in this study. Serum uric acid levels were estimated by using colorimetric assay kit. HRV was analyzed after recording lead II Electrocardiogram using RMS Vagus HRV software (RMS, India). One-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation was done using SPSS 18.0 software. RESULTS Mean uric acid levels were 5.62±2.21mg/dL in normal subjects, 7.06±2.87mg/dL in prehypertensives and 9.77±2.04mg/dL in hypertensives. There was statistically significant negative correlation between uric acid and time domain parameters of HRV in the whole sample and among prehypertensives and positive correlation with low frequency power (LF) in ms(2) and n.u. CONCLUSIONS Serum uric acid levels were high in prehypertensives and hypertensives as compared to normal subjects. Further, there was statistically significant correlation seen between uric acid levels and sympathetic domain parameters particularly among prehypertensives.
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Aneni E, Roberson LL, Shaharyar S, Blaha MJ, Agatston AA, Blumenthal RS, Meneghelo RS, Conceiçao RD, Nasir K, Santos RD. Delayed heart rate recovery is strongly associated with early and late-stage prehypertension during exercise stress testing. Am J Hypertens 2014; 27:514-21. [PMID: 24042166 DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpt173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Heart rate recovery (HRR) has been shown to predict cardiovascular disease mortality. HRR is delayed in hypertension, but its association with prehypertension (PHT) has not been well studied. METHODS The study population consisted of 683 asymptomatic individuals (90% men, aged 47±7.9 years). HRR was defined as peak heart rate minus heart rate after a 2-minute rest. PHT was categorized into stage I (systolic blood pressure (SBP) 120-129mm Hg or diastolic BP (DBP) 80-84mm Hg) or stage II (SBP 130-139mm Hg or DBP 85-89mm Hg). Logistic regression was used to generate odds ratios (ORs) for the relationship between HRR and PHT. RESULTS The mean HRR was lower in the PHT groups than in those who were normotensive (60 bpm and 58 bpm in stages I and II PHT vs. 65 bpm in normal BP; P <0.01). Persons with PHT were more likely to be in the lowest quartile of HRR compared with those with normal BP (adjusted OR, 3.80 and 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06, 13.56 for stage II PHT and adjusted OR, 3.01 and 95% CI 1.05, 8.66 for stage I PHT). In a fully adjusted model, HRR was still significantly associated with both stages of PHT. CONCLUSION Among asymptomatic patients undergoing stress testing, delayed HRR was independently associated with early and late stages of PHT. Further studies are needed to determine the usefulness of measuring HRR in the prevention and management of hypertension.
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- Ehimen Aneni
- Center for Prevention and Wellness Research, Baptist Health Medical Group, Miami Beach, Florida
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Ranek MJ, Kost CK, Hu C, Martin DS, Wang X. Muscarinic 2 receptors modulate cardiac proteasome function in a protein kinase G-dependent manner. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2014; 69:43-51. [PMID: 24508699 PMCID: PMC3977985 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Revised: 12/31/2013] [Accepted: 01/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Proteasome function insufficiency and inadequate protein quality control are strongly implicated in a large subset of cardiovascular disease and may play an important role in their pathogenesis. Protein degradation by the ubiquitin proteasome system can be physiologically regulated. Cardiac muscarinic 2 (M2) receptors were pharmacologically interrogated in intact mice and cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVMs). Proteasome-mediated proteolysis was measured with a surrogate misfolded protein, proteasome peptidase assay, and by characterizing key proteasome subunits. Successful M2 receptor manipulation in cardiomyocytes was determined by measuring an endogenous protein substrate, and in mice, the cardiovascular physiological response. M2 receptor stimulation was associated with increased proteasome-mediated proteolysis and enhanced peptidase activities, while M2 receptor inhibition yielded opposing results. Additionally, M2 receptor manipulation did not alter abundance of the key proteasome subunits, Rpt6 and β5, but significantly shifted their isoelectric points. Inhibition of protein kinase G abrogated the stimulatory effects on proteasome-mediated proteolysis from M2 receptor activation. We conclude that M2 receptor stimulation enhances, whereas M2 receptor inhibition reduces, proteasome-mediated proteolysis likely through posttranslational modifications. Protein kinase G appears to be the mediator of the M2 receptors actions.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Blotting, Western
- Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/genetics
- Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/metabolism
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Proteolysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Rats
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptor, Muscarinic M2/genetics
- Receptor, Muscarinic M2/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Signal Transduction
- Ubiquitin/metabolism
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- Mark J Ranek
- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA.
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Shanks J, Herring N. Peripheral cardiac sympathetic hyperactivity in cardiovascular disease: role of neuropeptides. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2013; 305:R1411-20. [PMID: 24005254 PMCID: PMC3882692 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00118.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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High levels of sympathetic drive in several cardiovascular diseases including postmyocardial infarction, chronic congestive heart failure and hypertension are reinforced through dysregulation of afferent input and central integration of autonomic balance. However, recent evidence suggests that a significant component of sympathetic hyperactivity may also reside peripherally at the level of the postganglionic neuron. This has been studied in depth using the spontaneously hypertensive rat, an animal model of genetic essential hypertension, where larger neuronal calcium transients, increased release and impaired reuptake of norepinephrine in neurons of the stellate ganglia lead to a significant tachycardia even before hypertension has developed. The release of additional sympathetic cotransmitters during high levels of sympathetic drive can also have deleterious consequences for peripheral cardiac parasympathetic neurotransmission even in the presence of β-adrenergic blockade. Stimulation of the cardiac vagus reduces heart rate, lowers myocardial oxygen demand, improves coronary blood flow, and independently raises ventricular fibrillation threshold. Recent data demonstrates a direct action of the sympathetic cotransmitters neuropeptide Y (NPY) and galanin on the ability of the vagus to release acetylcholine and control heart rate. Moreover, there is as a strong correlation between plasma NPY levels and coronary microvascular function in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction being treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Antagonists of the NPY receptors Y1 and Y2 may be therapeutically beneficial both acutely during myocardial infarction and also during chronic heart failure and hypertension. Such medications would be expected to act synergistically with β-blockers and implantable vagus nerve stimulators to improve patient outcome.
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- Julia Shanks
- Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Comparison of fetal heart rate patterns using nonlinear dynamics in breech versus cephalic presentation at term. Early Hum Dev 2013; 89:101-6. [PMID: 22959071 DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2012.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2011] [Revised: 08/16/2012] [Accepted: 08/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND It has been reported that breech fetuses have inferior neurological outcomes regardless of mode of delivery, raising the possibility that in utero neurological impairment is more frequent in breech fetuses, possibly contributing to malpresentation. AIMS To assess differences between the cardiovascular autonomic nervous systems (ANSs) of breech and cephalic fetuses using nonlinear dynamic indices of fetal heart rate (FHR) variability. STUDY DESIGN AND SUBJECTS This study included 86 fetuses with breech presentation and 173 fetuses with cephalic presentation, with no other maternal or fetal problems. We analyzed FHR variability and spectral indices as markers of ANS behavior. We used nonlinear dynamic indices to represent the complexity of heart rate regulation, as well as correlation dimension as a chaotic index of the cardiovascular control system. RESULTS One of FHR parameters (Mean minute range) was significantly lower in breech than cephalic fetuses (p=0.0294). However, there were no other significant differences in any linear or nonlinear indices, nor in clinical outcomes, between breech and cephalic fetuses. CONCLUSION Our data suggest that breech fetuses have neither more active ANS nor less active complexity control systems than do cephalic fetuses. This indicates that the neurologic maturation of breech fetuses is not inferior to cephalic ones. The practical implication of these findings is that the nervous system integrity of breech fetuses may not result directly in neonatal complications.
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van Lien R, Schutte NM, Meijer JH, de Geus EJC. Estimated preejection period (PEP) based on the detection of the R-wave and dZ/dt-min peaks does not adequately reflect the actual PEP across a wide range of laboratory and ambulatory conditions. Int J Psychophysiol 2012; 87:60-9. [PMID: 23142412 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2012] [Revised: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The current study evaluates the validity of the PEP computed from a fixed value for the Q-wave onset to R-wave peak (QR) interval and an R-wave peak to B-point (RB) interval that is estimated from the R-peak to dZ/dt-min peak (ISTI) interval. Ninety-one subjects participated in a 90min laboratory experiment in which a variety of often employed physical and mental stressors were presented and 31 further subjects participated in a structured 2hour ambulatory recording in which they partook in natural activities that induced large variation in posture and physical activity. PEP, QR interval, and ISTI were scored and rigorously checked by interactive inspection. Across the very diverse laboratory and ambulatory conditions the QR interval could be approximated by a fixed interval of 40ms but 95% confidence intervals were large (25.5 to 54.5ms). Multilevel analysis showed that 79% to 81% of the within and between-subject variation in the RB interval could be predicted by the ISTI with a simple linear regression equation. However, the optimal intercept and slope values in this equation varied significantly across subjects and study setting. Bland Altman plots revealed a large discrepancy between the estimated PEP using the R-wave peak and dZ/dt-min peak and the actual PEP based on the Q-wave onset and B-point. We conclude that the PEP estimated from a fixed QR interval and the ISTI could be a useful addition to the psychophysiologist's toolbox, but that it cannot replace the actual PEP to index cardiac sympathetic control.
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- René van Lien
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Chen JK, Zhao T, Ni M, Li DJ, Tao X, Shen FM. Downregulation of alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in two-kidney one-clip hypertensive rats. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2012; 12:38. [PMID: 22682236 PMCID: PMC3507811 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background Inflammation processes are important participants in the pathophysiology of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. The role of the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) in inflammation has recently been identified. Our previous study has demonstrated that the α7nAChR-mediated cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is impaired systemically in the genetic model of hypertension. In this work, we investigated the changes of α7nAChR expression in a model of secondary hypertension. Methods The 2-kidney 1-clip (2K1C) hypertensive rat model was used. Blood pressure, vagus nerve function, serum tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and both the mRNA and protein levels of α7nAChR in tissues from heart, kidney and aorta were measured at 4, 8 and 20 weeks after surgery. Results Compared with age-matched control, it was found that vagus nerve function was significantly decreased in 2K1C rats with the development of hypertension. Serum levels of TNF-α were greater in 2K1C rats than in age-matched control at 4, 8 and 20 weeks. α7nAChR mRNA in the heart was not altered in 2K1C rats. In the kidney of 2K1C rats, α7nAChR expression was significantly decreased at 8 and 20 weeks, but markedly increased at 4 weeks. α7nAChR mRNA was less in aorta of 2K1C rats than in age-matched control at 4, 8 and 20 weeks. These findings were confirmed at the protein levels of α7nAChR. Conclusions Our results suggested that secondary hypertension may induce α7nAChR downregulation, and the decreased expression of α7nAChR may contribute to inflammation in 2K1C hypertension.
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- Ji-Kuai Chen
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Goswami R, Frances MF, Steinback CD, Shoemaker JK. Forebrain organization representing baroreceptor gating of somatosensory afferents within the cortical autonomic network. J Neurophysiol 2012; 108:453-66. [PMID: 22514285 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00764.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Somatosensory afferents are represented within the cortical autonomic network (CAN). However, the representation of somatosensory afferents, and the consequent cardiovascular effects, may be modified by levels of baroreceptor input. Thus, we examined the cortical regions involved with processing somatosensory inputs during baroreceptor unloading. Neuroimaging sessions (functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI]) recorded brain activity during 30 mmHg lower-body negative pressure (LBNP) alone and combined with somatosensory stimulation (LBNP+SS) of the forearm (n = 14). Somatosensory processing was also assessed during increased sympathetic outflow via end-expiratory apnea. Heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), cardiac output (Q), and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) were recorded during the same protocols in a separate laboratory session. SS alone had no effect on any cardiovascular or MSNA variable at rest. Measures of HR, BP, and Q during LBNP were not different compared with LBNP+SS. The rise in MSNA burst frequency was attenuated during LBNP+SS versus LBNP alone (8 vs. 12 bursts/min, respectively, P < 0.05). SS did not affect the change in MSNA during apnea. Activations within the insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) observed during LBNP were not seen during LBNP+SS. Anterior insula and ACC activations occurring during apnea were not modified by SS. Thus, the absence of insular and dorsal ACC activity during LBNP+SS along with an attenuation of MSNA burst frequency suggest sympathoinhibitory effects of sensory stimulation during decreased baroreceptor input by a mechanism that includes conjoint insula-dorsal ACC regulation. These findings reveal that the level of baroreceptor input influences the forebrain organization of somatosensory afferents.
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- Ruma Goswami
- School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Determinants of cardiac vagal regulation: A cross-sectional study in a general population. Auton Neurosci 2011; 162:54-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2011.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2010] [Revised: 03/12/2011] [Accepted: 03/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Li DJ, Evans RG, Yang ZW, Song SW, Wang P, Ma XJ, Liu C, Xi T, Su DF, Shen FM. Dysfunction of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway mediates organ damage in hypertension. Hypertension 2010; 57:298-307. [PMID: 21173343 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.110.160077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Inflammatory responses are associated with the genesis and progression of end-organ damage (EOD) in hypertension. A role for the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) in inflammation has recently been identified. We tested the hypothesis that α7nAChR dysfunction contributes to hypertensive EOD. In both spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and rats with abdominal aorta coarctation-induced hypertension, atropine-induced tachycardia was blunted compared with normotensive controls. Both models of hypertension were associated with deficits in expression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter and the α7nAChR in cardiovascular tissues. In hypertension induced by abdominal aorta coarctation, deficits in aortic vesicular acetylcholine transporter and α7nAChR were present both above and below the coarctation site, indicating that they were independent of the level of arterial pressure itself. Hypertension in 40-week-old SHRs was associated with cardiac and aortic hypertrophy. Morphological abnormalities consistent with EOD, along with elevated tissue levels of proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1β, and interleukin-6) were observed in the heart, kidney, and aorta. Chronic treatment of SHRs with the α7nAChR agonist PNU-282987 relieved EOD and inhibited tissue levels of proinflammatory cytokines and activation of nuclear factor κB. Greater serum levels of proinflammatory cytokines and more severe damage in the heart, aorta, and kidney were seen in α7nAChR(-/-) mice subjected to 2-kidney-1-clip surgery than in wild-type mice. A deficit in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway appears to contribute to the pathogenesis of EOD in models of hypertension of varying etiology. This pathway may provide a new target for preventing cardiovascular disease resulting from hypertension.
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- Dong-Jie Li
- Department of Pharmacology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Goncharuk VD, Buijs RM, Jhamandas JH, Swaab DF. Vasopressin (VP) and neuropeptide FF (NPFF) systems in the normal and hypertensive human brainstem. J Comp Neurol 2010; 519:93-124. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.22507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Ferrario M, Moissl U, Garzotto F, Signorini MG, Cruz D, Tetta C, Ronco C, Gatti E, Cerutti S. Study of the autonomic response in hemodialysis patients with different fluid overload levels. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2010; 2010:3796-9. [PMID: 21096879 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5627559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This work aims at studying the autonomic nervous system (ANS) response to hemodialysis (HD) treatment in a population of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. ECG Holter recordings and whole body bioimpedance spectroscopy measurements were performed for each patient. Patients were classified according to the fluid overload (FO) values and the systolic blood pressure (SBP) measured before HD. Time domain and frequency domain indices from heart rate variability (HRV) signals were measured for the first 30 minutes and last 30 minutes of HD, the first hour after HD, and night (12.00 p.m.-4 a.m.). Significant differences were obtained in fluid overloaded but normotensive patients (Group IV) with respect to fluid overloaded and hypertensive patients (Group I) and normohydrated and normotensive patients (Group N+Dx). In particular, SDNN, RMSSD, SDSD, pNN50%, indices resulted significantly higher in Group IV with respect to the other groups. Overhydrated patients with hypertension (Group I) showed a blunted parasympathetic activity, which is supposed to contribute to hypertension.
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- Manuela Ferrario
- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Bioengineering, P.zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Italy.
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Schäffer L, Burkhardt T, Tomaske M, Schmidt S, Luzi F, Rauh M, Leone A, Beinder E. Effect of antenatal betamethasone administration on neonatal cardiac autonomic balance. Pediatr Res 2010; 68:286-91. [PMID: 20581746 DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e3181ed0cf2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Beneficial effects of antenatal glucocorticoid treatment in pregnancies at risk for preterm delivery may entail long-term consequences for the establishment of sympathoadrenergic system balance. We analyzed the cardiac autonomic system activity in neonates with a single course of antenatal betamethasone (2 × 12 mg) treatment by calculating heart rate variability (HRV) time-domain parameters from 24 h ECG recordings and short-term frequency-domain parameters during infant active and resting states. In addition, resting and challenged salivary α-amylase levels were measured in 23 betamethasone-exposed neonates and compared with controls. Indicators for overall HRV (SDNN: p = 0.258; triangular index: p = 0.179) and sympathovagal balance [low- to high-frequency power (LF/HF): p = 0.82 (resting state)] were not significantly different in neonates of the betamethasone treatment group. Parameters mostly influenced by sympathetic activity [SD of the average of valid NN intervals (SDANN): p = 0.184 and SDs of all NN intervals (SDNNi): p = 0.784] and vagal tone [RMSSD: p = 1.0; NN50: p = 0.852; HF: p = 0.785 (resting state)] were unaltered. Resting α-amylase levels were not significantly different in the betamethasone treatment group (p = 0.304); however, α-amylase release after a neonatal challenge was slightly reduced (p = 0.045). Thus, cardiac autonomic balance seems to be preserved in neonates exposed to a single course of antenatal betamethasone treatment.
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- Leonhard Schäffer
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich 8091, Switzerland.
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Hoch M, Hoever P, Haschke M, Krähenbühl S, Dingemanse J. Food effect and biocomparison of two formulations of the dual orexin receptor antagonist almorexant in healthy male subjects. J Clin Pharmacol 2010; 51:1116-21. [PMID: 20852003 DOI: 10.1177/0091270010377634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Matthias Hoch
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Allschwil, Switzerland.
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Fontana F, Pizzi C, Bernardi P, Pich EM, Bedini A, Spampinato S. Plasma nociceptin/orphanin FQ levels in response to the hyperventilation test in healthy subjects. Peptides 2010; 31:720-2. [PMID: 20100531 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2009] [Revised: 01/18/2010] [Accepted: 01/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that nociceptin/orphanin FQ inhibits norepinephrine release, while the effects of norepinephrine on nociceptin/orphanin FQ release remain unknown. Previous studies in healthy and hypertensive subjects showed that prolonged and forced hyperventilation induces different blood pressure (BP) responses depending on changes in plasma catecholamine levels. We investigated whether the effects of hyperventilation on the sympatho-adrenergic system involve nociceptin/orphanin FQ release. Fifty-six healthy subjects (26 females, mean age 63+/-2 and 30 males, mean age 63+/-3) underwent the hyperventilation test. A hierarchical cluster analysis based on BP response to hyperventilation identified three groups of subjects: group 1 (n=20) with a decrease in BP, norepinephrine (1311.1+/-45.5 fmol/ml versus 900.0+/-55.3 fmol/ml, P<0.01) and nociceptin/orphanin FQ (13.0+/-0.7 pg/ml versus 7.9+/-0.8 pg/ml, P<0.01), group 2 (n=18) without any change in BP and norepinephrine (1133.0+/-31.5 fmol/ml versus 1176.0+/-44.6 fmol/ml), with a decrease in nociceptin/orphanin FQ (12.5+/-3.2 pg/ml versus 7.4+/-0.6 pg/ml, P<0.01) and group 3 (n=18) with an increase in BP, norepinephrine (1216.7+/-50.9 fmol/ml versus 1666.7+/-44.9 fmol/ml, P<0.01) and nociceptin/orphanin FQ values (11.5+/-1.6 pg/ml versus 19.9+/-1.5 pg/ml, P<0.01). Norepinephrine changes in response to hyperventilation in groups 1 and 3 were directly (P<0.01) correlated with those of nociceptin/orphanin FQ. Our results showed that vigorous and prolonged hyperventilation changes plasma nociceptin/orphanin FQ levels due to the direct effects of hypocapnic alkalosis or to different sympatho-adrenergic system responses.
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- Fiorella Fontana
- Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, dell'Invecchiamento e Malattie Nefrologiche, Ospedale S Orsola, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy.
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Applying Power Spectral Analysis of Physiologic Signals to Explore Interactions Between Central Neural Regulation and Peripheral Circulation in Plastic Surgical Sciences. Tzu Chi Med J 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1016-3190(10)60028-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Pavithran P, Prakash ES, Dutta TK, Madanmohan T. Effect of antihypertensive drug therapy on short-term heart rate variability in newly diagnosed essential hypertension. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2010; 37:e107-13. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2009.05295.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Ni M, Yang ZW, Li DJ, Li Q, Zhang SH, Su DF, Xie HH, Shen FM. A Potential Role of Alpha-7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Cardiac Angiogenesis in a Pressure-Overload Rat Model. J Pharmacol Sci 2010; 114:311-9. [DOI: 10.1254/jphs.09335fp] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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The significance of amlodipine on autonomic nervous system adjustment (ANSA method): a new approach in the treatment of hypertension. SRP ARK CELOK LEK 2009; 137:371-8. [PMID: 19764590 DOI: 10.2298/sarh0908371m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular autonomic modulation is altered in patients with essential hypertension. OBJECTIVE To evaluate acute and long-term effects of amlodipine on cardiovascular autonomic function and haemodynamic status in patients with mild essential hypertension. METHODS Ninety patients (43 male, mean age 52.12 +/- 10.7) years with mild hypertension were tested before, 30 minutes after the first 5 mg oral dose of amlodipine and three weeks after monotherapy with amlodipine. A comprehensive study protocol was done including finger blood pressure variability (BPV) and heart rate variability (HRV) beat-to-beat analysis with impedance cardiography, ECG with software short-term HRV and nonlinear analysis, 24-hour Holter ECG monitoring with QT and HRV analysis, 24-hour blood pressure (BP) monitoring with systolic and diastolic BPV analysis, cardiovascular autonomic reflex tests, cold pressure test, mental stress test. The patients were also divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic groups, depending on predominance in short time spectral analysis of sympathovagal balance according to low frequency and high frequency values. RESULTS We confirmed a significant systolic and diastolic BP reduction, and a reduction of pulse pressure during day, night and early morning hours. The reduction of supraventricular and ventricular ectopic beats during the night was also achieved with therapy, but without statistical significance. The increment of sympathetic activity in early phase of amlodipine therapy was without statistical significance and persistence of sympathetic predominance after a few weeks of therapy detected based on the results of short-term spectral HRV analysis. All time domain parameters of long-term HRV analysis were decreased and low frequency amongst spectral parameters. Amlodipne reduced baroreflex sensitivity after three weeks of therapy, but increased it immediately after the administration of the first dose. CONCLUSION The results of the study showed that amlodipine affected autonomic modulation as a shift to sympathetic hyperactivity, but without statistical significance. In the selected group of patients with vagal predominance in sympathovagal balance, amlodipine increased sympathetic and decreases vagal activity. Therefore we conclude that amlodipine mostly exerts impact on autonomic function modulation in patients with vagal predominance in resting state.
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Cohen M, Brown DR, Myers MM. Cardiorespiratory measures before and after feeding challenge in term infants are related to birth weight. Acta Paediatr 2009; 98:1183-8. [PMID: 19397552 DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2009.01284.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIM This study tested the hypothesis that, within a few hours of delivery, cardiorespiratory measure taken during feeding provides markers of group differences related to birth weight. A secondary hypothesis was that high-frequency heart period variability would be related to underlying differences in autonomic control associated with birth weight. METHODS AND SUBJECTS One hundred four term infants in the lowest, middle, and highest birth weight quintiles were enrolled. Exclusion criteria were evidence of drug abuse, congenital anomalies, Apgar scores less than 7 or admission to the neonatal intensive care unit. Within 96 h of delivery, heart and respiratory rates, blood pressures and heart period variability were measured before, during and after feeding. RESULTS Term babies in the lowest quintile of birth weights have lower heart rates prior to feeding but greater increases in heart rate during the early postprandial period. Assessments of high-frequency heart period variability suggest that small term infants have greater parasympathetic tone before feeding and more sustained parasympathetic withdrawal following feeding. CONCLUSION Measurements of cardiorespiratory functions before and after feeding are related to birth weight and may provide markers that can help identify the most vulnerable of infants with small size at birth.
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- M Cohen
- Department of Pediatrics, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ 07112, USA.
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Pavithran P, Madanmohan T, Nandeesha H. Sex differences in short-term heart rate variability in patients with newly diagnosed essential hypertension. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 2009; 10:904-10. [PMID: 19120716 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.00052.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The authors report the results of the analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) indices during 5 minutes of supine rest and 5 minutes of standing and conventional indices of autonomic function in 69 men and 51 women with untreated newly diagnosed hypertension matched for body mass index and resting blood pressure. Mean RR interval, standard deviation of normal-to-normal RR intervals, low-frequency RR spectral power, HRV during deep breathing at 6 breaths per minute, and the 30:15 ratio (maximum RR interval 30th beat/minimum RR interval 15th beat) were significantly lower in women (P=.01, .02, .001, .04, .01, respectively) compared with men. Low frequency RR in normalized units was lower in women in the supine position alone (P=.03). HRV was significantly lower in women with untreated newly diagnosed hypertension compared with men. The authors interpret these results as indicating an increase in baseline cardiac sympathovagal balance in female hypertensive patients.
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- Purushothaman Pavithran
- Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research , Pondicherry, India.
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Pressor responses to hyperventilation in elderly subjects differentiate essential from secondary hypertension. Open Med (Wars) 2009. [DOI: 10.2478/s11536-009-0002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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AbstractWe evaluated pressor responses to the hyperventilation test in elderly normotensive (n=43, mean age 82 ± 5 years) and elderly hypertensive subjects (n=45 with essential hypertension, mean age 82 ± 2 years, and n=49 with secondary hypertension, mean age 82 ± 3 years). Hyperventilation did not change blood pressure (BP) in normotensive and secondary hypertensive subjects, whereas it decreased BP in essential hypertensives. Hierarchical cluster analysis based on BP responses to hyperventilation disclosed three groups of subjects in each population: group 1 exhibited a reduction in BP (essential hypertensives: 76%), group 2 no change (normotensives: 70%, secondary hypertensives: 76%), and group 3 an increase (normotensives: 19%, essential hypertensives: 13%, secondary hypertensives: 14%). Ambulatory BP monitoring found significant differences in pressor daytime profiles of hypertensive patients according to pressor responses to hyperventilation showing wide fluctuations in group 1 and 3 patients. Interestingly, the peak ambulatory SBP values correlated to the pre-hyperventilation SBP values in group 1, and to the hyperventilation peak SBP values in group 3. In conclusion: 1) Aging decreases reactivity to respiratory alkalosis in elderly normotensives; 2) hyperventilation induces significant pressor changes frequently in essential hypertension, but rarely in secondary hypertension; 3) the significant pressor responses to hyperventilation reflect the daytime pressor profiles predicting the highest daily fluctuations of BP values.
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Kirvelä M, Toivonen L, Lindgren L. Cardiac repolarization interval in end-stage diabetic and nondiabetic renal disease. Clin Cardiol 2009; 20:791-6. [PMID: 9294672 PMCID: PMC6656147 DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960200915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS QT interval length is influenced by autonomic nervous activity. In patients with diabetic autonomic neuropathy, both prolongation and shortening of ventricular repolarization has been reported. We studied diabetic and nondiabetic uremic patients to assess the effects of autonomic neuropathy on QT interval length. METHODS 24-hour electrocardiogram recordings were performed in 12 diabetic and 11 nondiabetic renal transplantation patients, and in 12 control patients. Mean and corrected QT interval (QTc) during the 24-h period and intervals at predetermined heart rates at day and night periods were determined. The degree of autonomic neuropathy was assessed with cardiovascular autonomic function tests and measurement of heart rate variability. RESULTS In the diabetic group, severe autonomic neuropathy was present; in nondiabetic uremic patients, abnormalities were less severe. Mean QTc interval during 24 h was 444 +/- 24, 447 +/- 21, and 442 +/- 19 ms in the diabetic and nondiabetic uremic patients, and in the control groups, respectively, without any between-group difference. QT and QTc interval length did not differ among the groups when measured at heart rates of 70, 80, 90, or 100 beats/min. CONCLUSIONS In patients with autonomic failure caused by diabetes and/or uremia, QT interval length cannot be used as a diagnostic indicator of cardiac autonomic neuropathy.
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- M Kirvelä
- Department of Anaesthesia, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Danson EJ, Li D, Wang L, Dawson TA, Paterson DJ. Targeting cardiac sympatho-vagal imbalance using gene transfer of nitric oxide synthase. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2009; 46:482-9. [PMID: 19166856 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2008] [Revised: 12/14/2008] [Accepted: 12/21/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Heightened sympathetic excitation and diminished parasympathetic suppression of heart rate, cardiac contractility and vascular tone are all associated with cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and ischemic heart disease. This phenotype often exists before these disease states have been established and is a strong correlate of mortality in the population. However, the causal role of the autonomic phenotype in the development and maintenance of hypertension and myocardial ischemia remains a subject of debate, as are the mechanisms responsible for regulating sympathovagal balance. Emerging evidence suggests oxidative stress and reactive oxygen species (such as nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide) play important roles in the modulation of autonomic balance, but so far the most important sites of action of these ubiquitous signaling molecules are unclear. In many cases, these mediators have opposing effects in separate tissues rendering conventional pharmacological approaches non-efficacious. Novel techniques have recently been used to augment these signaling pathways experimentally in a targeted fashion to central autonomic nuclei, cardiac neurons, and myocytes using gene transfer of NO synthase. This review article discusses these recent advances in the understanding of the roles of NO and its oxidative metabolites on autonomic imbalance in models of cardiovascular disease.
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- E J Danson
- Department of Physiology, Burdon-Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Anatomy and Genetics University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Effect of rapid ascent to high altitude on autonomic cardiovascular modulation. Am J Med Sci 2008; 336:248-53. [PMID: 18794620 DOI: 10.1097/maj.0b013e3181629a32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Effect of acute hypobaric hypoxia on autonomic nervous activities remains unclear. We evaluated the effect of rapid ascent to high altitude on autonomic cardiovascular modulation and compared the differences between the subjects with and without acute mountain sickness (AMS). METHOD Twenty-seven unacclimatized healthy subjects were included for this study. The sleep and study altitude (3180 m) was reached by car from low level (555 m) within 3 hours. The stationary spectral heart rate variability was measured 3 days before ascent (T0), 2 nights at high altitude (T1 and T2), and 2 days after descent (T3). AMS occurrence was evaluated by the Lake Louise score system. RESULTS At high altitude, RR intervals (RRI), standard deviation of RRI (SDRR), total power (TP), low-frequency power (LF), high-frequency power (HF), and normalized HF decreased significantly but normalized LF and LF/HF ratio increased significantly in subjects irrespective of AMS. AMS developed in 13 of 27 (48.1%) subjects. Compared with the data at T1, SDRR, TP, LF, and HF increased at T2 in AMS group but decreased in non-AMS group, and the differences in these variables (data at T2 minus data at T1) between the 2 groups showed statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS After rapid ascent to high altitude, autonomic nervous activities were suppressed and sympathetic activity was relatively predominant. At high altitude, the discordant changes in SDRR, TP, LF, and HF may reflect varying capacity of acute hypobaric hypoxic adaptation between the subjects with and without AMS.
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Pavithran P, Mithun R, Jomal M, Nandeesha H. Heart rate variability in middle-aged men with new-onset hypertension. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2008; 13:242-8. [PMID: 18713324 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474x.2008.00227.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND It has been well established that hypertension is associated with autonomic dysregulation. Studies investigating HRV have established that hypertension is characterized by sympathetic overactivity and or attenuation of parasympathetic modulation of the heart. METHODS We examined short-term heart rate variability (HRV) as well as conventional indices of cardiovascular autonomic function including heart rate variation during deep breathing (HRVdb), 30: 15 ratio, pressor response to quiet standing and isometric handgrip in 35 male subjects (39 +/- 7 year, mean +/- SD) with new-onset hypertension (resting BP 155 +/- 17/101 +/- 8 mm Hg) and 17 age-matched normotensive men (resting BP: 111 +/- 7/71 +/- 5 mmHg). RESULTS HRVdb was significantly lower in hypertensives (21 +/- 8) compared to normotensives (mean age 36 +/- 7, P = 0.03). Differences in mean RR were insignificant, logarithm of high-frequency (HF) spectral power of RR intervals was significantly lower in hypertensives compared to normotensives in the supine position (P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that new-onset hypertension is characterized by diminished short-term HRV, possibly due to an increase in cardiovascular sympathovagal balance.
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- Purushothaman Pavithran
- Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
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Wu JS, Lu FH, Yang YC, Lin TS, Chen JJ, Wu CH, Huang YH, Chang CJ. Epidemiological Study on the Effect of Pre-Hypertension and Family History of Hypertension on Cardiac Autonomic Function. J Am Coll Cardiol 2008; 51:1896-901. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.12.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2007] [Revised: 11/19/2007] [Accepted: 12/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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