Abstract
We studied causal relations among heart period (HP), systolic arterial pressure (SAP) and respiration (R) according to the definition of Granger causality in the time domain. Autonomic pharmacological challenges were used to alter the complexity of cardiovascular control. Atropine (AT), propranolol and clonidine (CL) were administered to block muscarinic receptors, β-adrenergic receptors and centrally sympathetic outflow, respectively.We found that: (i) at baseline, HP and SAP interacted in a closed loop with a dominant causal direction from HP to SAP; (ii) pharmacological blockades did not alter the bidirectional closedloop interactions between HP and SAP, but AT reduced the dominance of the causal direction from HP to SAP; (iii) at baseline, bidirectional interactions between HP and R were frequently found; (iv) the closed-loop relation between HP and R was unmodified by the administration of drugs; (v) at baseline, unidirectional interactions from R to SAP were often found; and (vi) while AT induced frequently an uncoupling between R and SAP, CL favoured bidirectional interactions. These results prove that time domain measures of Granger causality can contribute to the description of cardiovascular control by suggesting the temporal direction of the interactions and by separating different causality schemes (e.g. closed loop versus unidirectional relations).
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 20120161 |
| Journal | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
| Volume | 371 |
| Issue number | 1997 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 28 2013 |
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Keywords
- Arterial pressure variability
- Autonomic nervous system
- Baroreflex
- Cardiovascular control
- Granger causality
- Heart rate variability
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- Mathematics(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Engineering(all)
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Cardiovascular control and time domain granger causality : Insights from selective autonomic blockade. / Porta, Alberto; Castiglioni, Paolo; Di Rienzo, Marco; Bassani, Tito; Bari, Vlasta; Faes, Luca; Nollo, Giandomenico; Cividjan, Andrei; Quintin, Luc.
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AU - Porta, Alberto
AU - Castiglioni, Paolo
AU - Di Rienzo, Marco
AU - Bassani, Tito
AU - Bari, Vlasta
AU - Faes, Luca
AU - Nollo, Giandomenico
AU - Cividjan, Andrei
AU - Quintin, Luc
PY - 2013/8/28
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KW - Arterial pressure variability
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KW - Heart rate variability
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