Autonomic nervous system response to remote ischemic conditioning: heart rate variability assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) is a procedure applied in a limb for triggering endogenous protective pathways in distant organs, namely brain or heart. The underlying mechanisms of RIC are still not fully understood, and it is hypothesized they are mediated either by humoral factors, immune cells and/or the autonomic nervous system. Herein, heart rate variability (HRV) was used to evaluate the electrophysiological processes occurring in the heart during RIC and, in turn to assess the role of autonomic nervous system.

Methods

Healthy subjects were submitted to RIC protocol and electrocardiography (ECG) was used to evaluate HRV, by assessing the variability of time intervals between two consecutive heart beats. This is a pilot study based on the analysis of 18 E

SUBMITTER: Noronha Osorio D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6734354 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature