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ArticleScientific reports2022

Unconscious mind activates central cardiovascular network and promotes adaptation to microgravity possibly anti-aging during 1-year-long spaceflight.

Kuniaki Otsuka, Germaine Cornelissen, Satoshi Furukawa, Koichi Shibata, Yutaka Kubo, Koh Mizuno, Tatsuya Aiba, Hiroshi Ohshima, Chiaki Mukai

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Kuniaki OtsukaExecutive Medical Center, Related Medical Facility, Totsuka Royal Clinic, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Sinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan. frtotk99@ba2.so-net.ne.jp.
Germaine CornelissenHalberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Satoshi FurukawaSpace Biomedical Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan.
Koichi ShibataDepartment of Medicine, Medical Center East, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Yutaka KuboDepartment of Medicine, Medical Center East, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Koh MizunoSpace Biomedical Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan.
Tatsuya AibaSpace Biomedical Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan.
Hiroshi OhshimaSpace Biomedical Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan.
Chiaki MukaiSpace Biomedical Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · JPTokyo Women's Medical University Adachi Medical Center · JPTokyo Women's Medical University · JPUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intrinsic cardiovascular regulatory system (β, 0.00013-0.02 Hz) did not adapt to microgravity after a 6-month spaceflight. The infraslow oscillation (ISO, 0.01-0.10 Hz) coordinating brain dynamics via thalamic astrocytes plays a key role in the adaptation to novel environments. We investigate the adaptive process of a healthy astronaut during a 12-month-long spaceflight by analyzing heart rate variability (HRV) in the LF (0.01-0.05 Hz) and MF1 (0.05-0.10 Hz) bands for two consecutive days on four occasions: before launch, at 1-month (ISS01) and 11-month (ISS02) in space, and after return to Earth. Alteration of β during ISS01 improved during ISS02 (P = 0.0167). During ISS01, LF and MF1 bands, reflecting default mode network (DMN) activity, started to increase at night (by 43.1% and 32.0%, respectively), when suprachiasmatic astrocytes are most active, followed by a 25.9% increase in MF1-band throughout the entire day during ISS02, larger at night (47.4%) than during daytime. Magnetic declination correlated positively with β during ISS01 (r = 0.6706, P < 0.0001) and ISS02 (r = 0.3958, P = 0.0095). Magnetic fluctuations may affect suprachiasmatic astrocytes, and the DMN involving ISOs and thalamic astrocytes may then be activated, first at night, then during the entire day, a mechanism that could perhaps promote an anti-aging effect noted in other investigations.

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PMID35831420
PMCPMC9279338
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