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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 284: H1479-H1493, 2003. First published December 19, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00850.2002
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Vol. 284, Issue 4, H1479-H1493, April 2003

Role of short-term cardiovascular regulation in heart period variability: a modeling study

Mauro Ursino and Elisa Magosso

Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems, University of Bologna, I40136, Bologna, Italy

A mathematical model of short-term cardiovascular regulation is used to investigate how heart period variability reflects the action of the autonomic regulatory mechanisms (vagal and sympathetic). The model includes the pulsating heart, the systemic (splanchnic and extrasplanchnic) and pulmonary circulation, the mechanical effect of respiration on venous return, two groups of receptors (arterial baroreceptors and lung stretch receptors), the sympathetic and vagal efferent branches, and a very low-frequency (LF) vasomotor noise. All model parameters were given on the basis of physiological data from the literature. We used data from humans whenever possible, whereas parameters for the regulation loops are derived from dog experiments. The model, with basal parameter values, produces a heart period power spectrum with two distinct peaks [a high frequency (HF) peak at the respiratory rate and a LF peak at ~0.1 Hz]. Sensitivity analysis on the mechanism gains suggests that the HF peak is mainly affected by the vagal mechanism, whereas the LF peak is increased by a high sympathetic gain and reduced by a high vagal gain. Moreover, the LF peak depends significantly on the reactivity of resistance vessels and is affected by noise, amplified by the sympathetic control loop at its resonance frequency. The model may represent a new tool to study alterations in the heart period spectrum on the basis of quantitative physiological hypotheses.

autonomic regulation; baroreflex; cardiovascular variability; mathematical model; power spectrum


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