Incidence of arrhythmias and heart rate variability in wild-type rats exposed to social stress

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 4 42-4, 1997, Pages

  Sgoifo, Andrea ^a   De Boer, Sietse F ^a   Westenbroek, Christel ^a   Maes, Frans W ^a   Beldhuis, Hans ^a   Suzuki, Takanori ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Catecholamines; Defeat; Restraint; Telemetry electrocardiogram

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0030701623     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.273.4.h1754     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Blanchard, R. J., and D. C. Blanchard. The organization and modeling of animal aggression. In: The Biology of Aggression, edited by P. F. Brain and D. Benton. Leiden, The Netherlands: Sijthoff and Noordhoff, 1981, p. 529-561.
2. Bohus, B., R. F. Benus, D. S. Fokkema, J. M. Koolhaas, C. Nyakas, G. A. van Oortmerssen, A. J. A. Prins, A. J. H. de Ruiter, A. J. W. Scheurink, and A. B. Steffens. Neuroendocrine states and behavioral and physiological stress responses. In: Neuropeptides and Brain Function. Progress in Brain Research, edited by E. R. de Kloet, M. Wiegant, and D. de Wied. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1987, p. 57-70.
3. Brockway, B. P., and C. R. Hassler. Application of radiotelemetry to cardiovascular measurements in pharmacology and toxicology. In: New Technologies and Concepts for Reducing Drug Toxicities, edited by H. Salem and S. I. Baskin. Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1993, p. 109-132.
4. Carré, F., Y. Lessard, P. Coumel, L. Ollivier, S. Besse, Y. Lecarpentier, and B. Swynghedauw. Spontaneous arrhythmias in various models of cardiac hypertrophy and senescence of rats. A holter monitoring study. Cardiovasc. Res. 26: 698-705, 1992.
5. Corr, P. B., B. Pitt, B. H. Natelson, D. J. Reis, K. I. Shine, and J. E. Skinner. Task Force 3: sudden cardiac death. Neural-chemical interactions. Circulation 76, Suppl. 1: 1208-1214, 1987.
6. De Boer, S. F., J. L. Slangen, and J. van der Gugten. Plasma catecholamine and corticosterone levels during active and passive shock-prod avoidance behavior in rats: effects of chlordiazepoxide. Physiol. Behav. 47: 1089-1098, 1990.
7. Dimsdale, J. E., and J. Moss. Plasma catecholamines in stress and exercise. JAMA 243: 340-342, 1980.
8. Evans, D. E., and R. A. Gillis. Reflex mechanisms involved in cardiac arrhythmias induced by hypothalamic stimulation. Am. J. Physiol. 234 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 3): H199-H209, 1978.
9. Hull, S. S., A. R. Evans, E. Vanoli, P. B. Adamson, M. Stramba-Badiale, D. E. Albert, R. D. Foreman, and P. J. Schwartz. Heart rate variability before and after myocardial infarction in conscious dogs at high and low risk of sudden death. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 16: 978-985, 1990.
10. Kirby, D. A., J. M. B. Pinto, S. Hottinger, D. A. Johnson, and B. Lown. Behavioral arousal enhances inducibility and rate of ventricular tachycardia. Am. J. Physiol. 261 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 30): H1734-H1739, 1991.
11. Kleiger, R. E., P. K. Stein, M. S. Bosner, and J. N. Rottman. Time domain measurements of heart rate variability. Cardiol. Clin. 10: 487-498, 1992.
12. Kojima, K., K. Hirata, S. Higuchi, K. Akazawa, and N. Tashiro. The relation of emotional behavior to plasma catecholamines, cortisol and ventricular arrhythmia. J. Auton. Nerv. Syst. 55: 57-64, 1995.
13. Koolhaas, J. M., and B. Bohus. Coping strategies and cardiovascular risk: a study of rats and mice. In: Behavioral Observations in Cardiovascular Research, edited by A. Appels. Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1991, p. 45-60.
14. Koolhaas, J. M., F. Schuurman, and D. S. Fokkema. Social behavior in rats as a model for the psychophysiology of hypertension. In: Biobehavioral Bases of Coronary Heart Disease, edited by T. M. Dembroski, T. H. Schmidt, and G. Blumchen. Basel: Karger, 1983, p. 391-400.
15. Levine, S., and H. Ursin. What is stress? In: Stress. Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology, edited by M. R. Brown, G. F. Koob, and C. Rivier. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1991, p. 3-21.
16. Liang, B., R. L. Verrier, J. Melman, and B. Lown. Correlation between circulating catecholamine levels and ventricular vulnerability during psychological stress in conscious dogs. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 161: 266-269, 1979.
17. Lombardi, F., A. Malliani, M. Pagani, and S. Cerutti. Heart rate variability and its sympatho-vagal modulation. Cardiovasc. Res. 32: 208-216, 1996.
18. Lown, B. Sudden cardiac death: biobehavioral perspective. Circulation 76, Suppl. I: 1186-1196, 1987.
19. Lown, B., R. Verrier, and R. Corbalan. Psychologic stress and threshold for repetitive ventricular response. Science 182: 834-836, 1973.