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- Title
The circadian pacemaker generates similar circadian rhythms in the fractal structure of heart rate in humans and rats.
- Authors
Kun Hu; Scheer, Frank A.J.L.; Buijs, Ruud M.; Shea, Steven A.
- Abstract
Aims: Adverse cardiovascular events in humans occur with a day/night pattern, presumably related to a daily pattern of behaviours or endogenous circadian rhythms in cardiovascular variables. Healthy humans possess a scale-invariant/fractal structure in heartbeat fluctuations that exhibits an endogenous circadian rhythm and changes towards the structure observed in cardiovascular disease at the circadian phase corresponding to the time of the broad peak of adverse cardiovascular events (at about 10 AM). To explore the relationship between the rest/activity cycle, endogenous circadian rhythmicity, and cardiac vulnerability, we tested whether the fractal structure of heart rate exhibits a similar circadian rhythm in a mammalian species that is nocturnally active (Wistar rats) compared with diurnally active humans, and how this fractal structure changes after lesioning the circadian pacemaker (suprachiasmatic nucleus, SCN) in rats.
- Publication
Cardiovascular Research, 2008, Vol 80, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0008-6363
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1093/cvr/cvn150