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ArticleJournal of clinical trials2014

Impaired signaling intrinsic to sinoatrial node pacemaker cells affects heart rate variability during cardiac disease.

Yael Yaniv, Alexey E Lyashkov, Edward G Lakatta

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Article in Journal of clinical trials, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07443072 (Heart Rate Variability and Processed EEG Features as Predictors of Postoperative Outcomes After Cranial Neurosurgery - A Prospective Observational Study in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.

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NCT07443072 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Heart Rate Variability and Processed EEG Features as Predictors of Postoperative Outcomes After Cranial Neurosurgery - A Prospective Observational Study in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

TypeobservationalSponsorFondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaRan2026 to 2027Enrolled300ConditionsCranial Neurosurgery
3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. What makes the sinoatrial node tick? A question not for the faint of heart.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yael YanivLaboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Alexey E LyashkovDepartment of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 North Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Edward G LakattaLaboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Funding

Beat to beat Ca2+-dependent regulation of pacemaker cell rate and rhythmZIAAG000598 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI LAKATTA, EDWARD · 2011 to 2025
$3.5M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AG000598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The normal heart beat intervals are neither strictly stationary nor completely random, and continuously shift from one period to another. Decoding the ECG identifies this "hidden" information that imparts inherent complexity to the heart-beating interval time series. Loss of this complexity in cardiovascular disease is manifested as a reduction in heart rate variability (HRV) and this reduction correlates with an increase in both morbidity and mortality. Because HRV measurements are noninvasive and easy to perform, they have emerged as an important tool in cardiology. However, the identities of specific mechanisms that underline the changes in HRV that occur in cardiovascular diseases remain largely unknown. Changes in HRV have mainly been interpreted on a neural basis, ie due to changes in autonomic impulses to the heart: sympathetic activity decreases both the average heart beat interval and HRV, and parasympathetic activity increases both. It has now become clear, however, that the heart rate and HRV are also determined by intrinsic properties of the pacemaker cells that comprise the sinoatrial node, and the responses of these properties to autonomic receptor stimulation. Here we review how changes in the properties of coupled-clock mechanisms intrinsic to pacemaker cells that comprise the sinoatrial node and their impaired response to autonomic receptor stimulation are implicated in the changes of HRV observed in heart diseases.

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Cardiac denervationCoupled-clock pacemaker systemFractal-like behavior of the heart rate

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PMID26251764
PMCPMC4524547

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