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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 597, Issue 6, Pages 1553-1564Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/JP277321
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Cerebral autoregulation; Transfer function; Lower body pressure
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There is currently little empirical basis for time scales that are considered to be most significant in cerebrovascular counter-regulation of changes in arterial pressure. Although it is well established that cerebral autoregulation behaves as a 'high-pass' filter, recommended frequency bands have been largely arbitrarily determined. To test effectiveness of cerebral autoregulation, we refined oscillatory lower body pressure (LBP) to augment resting pressure fluctuations below 0.1 Hz by a factor of two in 13 young male volunteers, and thoroughly characterized the time and frequency responses of cerebral autoregulation. We observed that despite a threefold increase in arterial pressure power <0.03 Hz with oscillatory LBP, there was no change in cerebral blood flow power, indicating near perfect counter-regulation. By contrast, in the range 0.03-0.10 Hz, both cerebral blood flow and arterial pressure power more than doubled. Our data demonstrate that cerebral autoregulation is most effective in buffering against pressure fluctuations slower than 0.03 Hz (similar to 30 s). This suggests that frequency bands of interest should be redefined and recording length should be increased considerably to account for this. Furthermore, low cross-spectral coherence below 0.03 Hz, even when pressure fluctuations were augmented, highlights the uncertainty in transfer function approaches and the need to either report precision or use non-linear approaches. Finally, haemodynamic changes induced by LBP could not fully explain the differences in autoregulation estimated from spontaneous vs. augmented fluctuations, and thus, observations of spontaneous fluctuations should not be relied on whenever possible.
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