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Cardiovascular rhythms in the 0.15-Hz band: common origin of identical phenomena in man and dog in the reticular formation of the brain stem?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  15138824     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Selected examples from experiments in humans and dogs with time series of reticular neurons, respiration, arterial blood pressure and cutaneous forehead blood content fluctuations were analysed using multiscaled time-frequency distribution, post-event-scan and pointwise transinformation. We found in both experiments a "0.15-Hz rhythm" exhibiting periods of spindle waves (increasing and decreasing amplitudes), phase synchronized with respiration at 1:2 and 1:1 integer number ratios. At times of wave-epochs and n:m phase synchronization, the 0.15-Hz rhythm appeared in heart rate and arterial blood pressure. As phase synchronization of the 0.15-Hz rhythm with respiration was established at a 1:1 integer number ratio, all cardiovascular-respiratory oscillations were synchronized at 0.15 Hz. Analysis of a canine experiment supplied evidence that the emergence of the 0.15-Hz rhythm and n:m phase synchronization appears to result from a decline in the level of the general activity of the organism associated with a decline in the level of activity of reticular neurons in the lower brainstem network. These findings corroborate the notion of the 0.15-Hz rhythm as a marker of the "trophotropic mode of operation" first introduced by W.R. Hess.
Authors:
Volker Perlitz; Manfred Lambertz; Birol Cotuk; Reinhard Grebe; Ralf Vandenhouten; Guido Flatten; Ernst Richard Petzold; Holger Schmid-Schönbein; Peter Langhorst
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comparative Study; Journal Article     Date:  2004-05-12
Journal Detail:
Title:  Pflügers Archiv : European journal of physiology     Volume:  448     ISSN:  0031-6768     ISO Abbreviation:  Pflugers Arch.     Publication Date:  2004 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2004-11-01     Completed Date:  2005-06-28     Revised Date:  2008-11-21    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0154720     Medline TA:  Pflugers Arch     Country:  Germany    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  579-91     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Psychophysiologisches Labor, Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Medizinische Fakultät der Rheinisch-Westfälisch-Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 52057 Aachen, Germany. vmperlitz@ukaachen.de
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Blood Pressure
Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena*
Dogs
Electrophysiology
Female
Humans
Male
Medulla Oblongata / physiology
Microcirculation
Middle Aged
Neurons / physiology
Periodicity*
Photoplethysmography
Relaxation Therapy
Respiratory Physiological Phenomena*
Reticular Formation / physiology*
Skin / blood supply

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