title: The daily pattern of heart rate, body temperature, locomotor activity, and autonomic nervous activity in congenitally bronchial-hypersensitive (BHS) and bronchial-hyposensitive (BHR) guinea pigs.
abstract: We studied the characteristics of the rhythmicity of heart rate (HR), body temperature (BT), locomotor activity (LA) and autonomic nervous activity in bronchial-hypersensitive (BHS) and bronchial-hyposensitive (BHR) guinea pigs. For this purpose, HR, BT, LA, and electrocardiogram (ECG) were recorded from conscious and unrestrained guinea pigs using a telemetry system. Autonomic nervous activity was analyzed by power spectral analysis of heart rate variability. Nocturnal patterns, in which the values in the dark phase (20:00-06:00) were higher than those in the light phase (06:00-20:00), were observed in HR, BT and LA in both strains of guinea pigs. The autonomic nervous activity in BHS guinea pigs showed a daily pattern, although BHR guinea pigs did not show such a rhythmicity. The high frequency (HF) power in BHS guinea pigs was higher than that in BHR guinea pigs throughout the day. Moreover, the low frequency/high frequency (LF/HF) ratio in BHS guinea pigs was lower than that in BHR guinea pigs throughout the day. These results suggest that parasympathetic nervous activity may be predominant in BHS guinea pigs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Comparative Pathophysiology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akita
authors.forename: Masayoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuwahara
authors.forename: Ryoji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nishibata
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mikami
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsubone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006168:Guinea Pigs / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D017440:Photoperiod; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000503:physiopathology; D013686:Telemetry / Q000379:methods