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Hadaya J, Dajani AH, Cha S, Hanna P, Challita R, Hoover DB, Ajijola OA, Shivkumar K, Ardell JL. Vagal Nerve Stimulation Reduces Ventricular Arrhythmias and Mitigates Adverse Neural Cardiac Remodeling Post-Myocardial Infarction. JACC Basic Transl Sci 2023; 8:1100-1118. [PMID: 37791302 PMCID: PMC10543930 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2023.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
Abstract
This study sought to evaluate the impact of chronic vagal nerve stimulation (cVNS) on cardiac and extracardiac neural structure/function after myocardial infarction (MI). Groups were control, MI, and MI + cVNS; cVNS was started 2 days post-MI. Terminal experiments were performed 6 weeks post-MI. MI impaired left ventricular mechanical function, evoked anisotropic electrical conduction, increased susceptibility to ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation, and altered neuronal and glial phenotypes in the stellate and dorsal root ganglia, including glial activation. cVNS improved cardiac mechanical function and reduced ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation post-MI, partly by stabilizing activation/repolarization in the border zone. MI-associated extracardiac neural remodeling, particularly glial activation, was mitigated with cVNS.
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- Joseph Hadaya
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
- Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Huffman WJ, Musselman ED, Pelot NA, Grill WM. Measuring and modeling the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on heart rate and laryngeal muscles. Bioelectron Med 2023; 9:3. [PMID: 36797733 PMCID: PMC9936668 DOI: 10.1186/s42234-023-00107-4] [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: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Reduced heart rate (HR) during vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is associated with therapy for heart failure, but stimulation frequency and amplitude are limited by patient tolerance. An understanding of physiological responses to parameter adjustments would allow differential control of therapeutic and side effects. To investigate selective modulation of the physiological responses to VNS, we quantified the effects and interactions of parameter selection on two physiological outcomes: one related to therapy (reduced HR) and one related to side effects (laryngeal muscle EMG). METHODS We applied a broad range of stimulation parameters (mean pulse rates (MPR), intra-burst frequencies, and amplitudes) to the vagus nerve of anesthetized mice. We leveraged the in vivo recordings to parameterize and validate computational models of HR and laryngeal muscle activity across amplitudes and temporal patterns of VNS. We constructed a finite element model of excitation of fibers within the mouse cervical vagus nerve. RESULTS HR decreased with increased amplitude, increased MPR, and decreased intra-burst frequency. EMG increased with increased MPR. Preferential HR effects over laryngeal EMG effects required combined adjustments of amplitude and MPR. The model of HR responses highlighted contributions of ganglionic filtering to VNS-evoked changes in HR at high stimulation frequencies. Overlap in activation thresholds between small and large modeled fibers was consistent with the overlap in dynamic ranges of related physiological measures (HR and EMG). CONCLUSION The present study provides insights into physiological responses to VNS required for informed parameter adjustment to modulate selectively therapeutic effects and side effects.
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- William J. Huffman
- grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Box 90281, Room 1427, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0281 USA
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- grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Box 90281, Room 1427, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0281 USA
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- grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Box 90281, Room 1427, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0281 USA
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- grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Box 90281, Room 1427, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0281 USA ,grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, USA ,grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Neurobiology Engineering, Duke University, Durham, USA ,grid.26009.3d0000 0004 1936 7961Department of Neurosurgery Engineering, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Gurel NZ, Sudarshan KB, Hadaya J, Karavos A, Temma T, Hori Y, Armour JA, Kember G, Ajijola OA. Metrics of high cofluctuation and entropy to describe control of cardiac function in the stellate ganglion. eLife 2022; 11:e78520. [PMID: 36426848 PMCID: PMC9815826 DOI: 10.7554/elife.78520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Stellate ganglia within the intrathoracic cardiac control system receive and integrate central, peripheral, and cardiopulmonary information to produce postganglionic cardiac sympathetic inputs. Pathological anatomical and structural remodeling occurs within the neurons of the stellate ganglion (SG) in the setting of heart failure (HF). A large proportion of SG neurons function as interneurons whose networking capabilities are largely unknown. Current therapies are limited to targeting sympathetic activity at the cardiac level or surgical interventions such as stellectomy, to treat HF. Future therapies that target the SG will require understanding of their networking capabilities to modify any pathological remodeling. We observe SG networking by examining cofluctuation and specificity of SG networked activity to cardiac cycle phases. We investigate network processing of cardiopulmonary transduction by SG neuronal populations in porcine with chronic pacing-induced HF and control subjects during extended in-vivo extracellular microelectrode recordings. We find that information processing and cardiac control in chronic HF by the SG, relative to controls, exhibits: (i) more frequent, short-lived, high magnitude cofluctuations, (ii) greater variation in neural specificity to cardiac cycles, and (iii) neural network activity and cardiac control linkage that depends on disease state and cofluctuation magnitude.
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- Nil Z Gurel
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie UniversityNova ScotiaCanada
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
- UCLA Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology ProgramLos AngelesUnited States
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie UniversityNova ScotiaCanada
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie UniversityNova ScotiaCanada
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- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of ExcellenceLos AngelesUnited States
- UCLA Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology ProgramLos AngelesUnited States
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Gurel NZ, Sudarshan KB, Tam S, Ly D, Armour JA, Kember G, Ajijola OA. Studying Cardiac Neural Network Dynamics: Challenges and Opportunities for Scientific Computing. Front Physiol 2022; 13:835761. [PMID: 35574437 PMCID: PMC9099376 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.835761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Neural control of the heart involves continuous modulation of cardiac mechanical and electrical activity to meet the organism's demand for blood flow. The closed-loop control scheme consists of interconnected neural networks with central and peripheral components working cooperatively with each other. These components have evolved to cooperate control of various aspects of cardiac function, which produce measurable "functional" outputs such as heart rate and blood pressure. In this review, we will outline fundamental studies probing the cardiac neural control hierarchy. We will discuss how computational methods can guide improved experimental design and be used to probe how information is processed while closed-loop control is operational. These experimental designs generate large cardio-neural datasets that require sophisticated strategies for signal processing and time series analysis, while presenting the usual large-scale computational challenges surrounding data sharing and reproducibility. These challenges provide unique opportunities for the development and validation of novel techniques to enhance understanding of mechanisms of cardiac pathologies required for clinical implementation.
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- Nil Z. Gurel
- UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- UCLA Department of Bioengineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- UCLA Department of Bioengineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- UCLA Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Ge CY, Hao DJ. A commentary on "Comparative analysis of the efficacy of early and late surgical intervention for acute spinal cord injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on 16 studies" (Int J Surg 2021;94:106098). Int J Surg 2021; 95:106155. [PMID: 34737141 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.106155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Chao-Yuan Ge
- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China Department of Spine Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China
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