期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
卷 15, 期 6, 页码 554-560出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.11.011
关键词
Pain; Sleep; Heart rate variability; Autonomic nervous system; Wavelet analysis; Laser stimulation
资金
- Novacor company (Rueil Malmaison, France)
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (FRM)
- Fondation NRJ-Institut de France
- French National Agency for Medical Research (INSERM) [RBM 03-60]
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) reacts to nociceptive stimulation during sleep, but whether this reaction is contingent to cortical arousal, and whether one of the autonomic arms (sympathetic/parasympathetic) predominates over the other remains unknown. We assessed ANS reactivity to nociceptive stimulation during all sleep stages through heart rate variability, and correlated the results with the presence of cortical arousal measured in concomitant 32-channel EEG. Fourteen healthy volunteers underwent whole-night polysomnography during which nociceptive laser stimuli were applied over the hand. RR intervals (RR) and spectral analysis by wavelet transform were performed to assess parasympathetic (HFWV) and sympathetic (LFWV and LFWV/HFWV ratio) reactivity. During all sleep stages, RR significantly decreased in reaction to nociceptive stimulations, reaching a level similar to that of wakefulness, at the 3rd beat post-stimulus and returning to baseline after seven beats. This RR decrease was associated with an increase in sympathetic LFWV and LFWV/HFWV ratio without any parasympathetic HFWV change. Albeit RR decrease existed even in the absence of arousals, it was significantly higher when an arousal followed the noxious stimulus. These results suggest that the sympathetic-dependent cardiac activation induced by nociceptive stimuli is modulated by a sleep dependent phenomenon related to cortical activation and not by sleep itself, since it reaches a same intensity whatever the state of vigilance. (C) 2010 European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain Chapters. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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