Scaling vs. nonscaling methods of assessing autonomic tone in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.
We studied heart rate variability in rats by power scaling spectral analysis (PSSA), autoregressive modeling (AR), and detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), assessed stability by coefficient of variation between consecutive 6-h epochs, and then compared cross-correlation among techniques. These same parameters were checked from baseline conditions through acute and chronic disease states (streptozotocin-induced diabetes) followed by therapeutic intervention (insulin). Cross-correlation between methods over the entire time period was r = 0.94 (DFA and PSSA), r = 0.81 (DFA and AR), and r = 0.77 (AR and PSSA). Under baseline conditions the scaling parameter measured by DFA and PSSA and the high-frequency (HF) component measured by AR fluctuated around an average value, but these fluctuations were different for the three methods. After diabetes induction, a strong correlation was found between the HF power and the short-term scaling parameter. Despite their differences in methodology, DFA and PSSA assess changes in parasympathetic tone as detected by autoregressive modeling.
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Itay
I
Perlstein
Nir
N
Sapir
Joshua
J
Backon
Dan
D
Sapoznikov
Roman
R
Karasik
Shlomo
S
Havlin
Amnon
A
Hoffman
D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology
D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin