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ArticleCardiovascular pharmacology: open access

The fractal-like complexity of heart rate variability beyond neurotransmitters and autonomic receptors: signaling intrinsic to sinoatrial node pacemaker cells.

Yael Yaniv, Alexey E Lyashkov, Edward G Lakatta

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Article in Cardiovascular pharmacology: open access. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

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.
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USNational Institute on Aging · US

Funding

Decreased pacemaker activity in aged sinoatrial nodeZIAAG000262 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI LAKATTA, EDWARD · 2009 to 2025
$5.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AG000262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The heart rate and rhythm are controlled by complex chaotic neural, chemical and hormonal networks which are not strictly regular, but exhibit fluctuations across multiple time scales. A careful assessment of the heart rate variability (HRV) offers clues to this complexity. A reduction in HRV, specifically in advanced age, is associated with increase in morbidity and mortality. Mechanisms that induce this decrease, however, have not been fully elucidated. The classical literature characterizes changes in HRV as a result of changes in the balance of competing influences of the sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic impulses delivered to the heart. It has now become clear, however, that the heart rate and HRV are also determined by intrinsic properties of the pacemaker cells that comprise sinoatrial node, and that these properties respond to autonomic receptor stimulation in a non-linear mode. That HRV is determined by both the intrinsic properties of pacemaker cells in the sinoatrial node and the competing influences of the two branches of the autonomic neural input to the cells requires an expansion of our perspective about mechanisms that govern HRV in the normal heart, and how HRV changes with aging in health and in heart diseases.

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

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PMID26709383
PMCPMC4690533
OpenAlexW2117833950

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