Sympathetic reactivity in late pregnancy is related to labour onset in women

Stress

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 627-633

  Hellgren, Charlotte ^a   Åkerud, Helena ^a   Jonsson, Maria ^a   Sundström Porömaa, Inger ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cold pressor test; Initiation of labour; Pain threshold; Pregnancy; Skin conductance; Sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COLD STRESS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABOR ONSET; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LABOR ONSET; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 80054086337     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2011.614662     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Altemus M, Deuster PA, Galliven E, Carter CS, Gold PW. 1995. Suppression of hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in lactating women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 80:2954-2959.
2. Avery ND, Wolfe LA, Amara CE, Davies GA, McGrath MJ. 2001. Effectsofhuman pregnancyon cardiac autonomic function above and below the ventilatory threshold. J Appl Physiol 90:321-328. (Pubitemid 32038534)
3. Brauer MM. 2008. Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying plasticity in uterine sympathetic nerves. Auton Neurosci 140:1-16.
4. Brunton PJ, Russell JA. 2008. The expectant brain:Adapting for motherhood. Nat Rev Neurosci 9:11-25.
5. Carvalho B, Angst MS, Fuller AJ, Lin E, Mathusamy AD, Riley ET. 2006. Experimental heat pain for detecting pregnancy-induced analgesia in humans. Anesth Analg 103:1283-1287. (Pubitemid 44627360)
6. Choo EK, Magruder W, Montgomery CJ, Lim J, Brant R, Ansermino JM. 2010. Skin conductance fluctuations correlate poorly with postoperative self-report pain measures in school-aged children. Anesthesiology 113:175-182.
7. Cogan R, Spinnato JA. 1986. Pain and discomfort thresholds in late pregnancy. Pain 27:63-68. (Pubitemid 16003208)
8. Dabo F, Nyberg F, Zhou Q, Sundström-Poromaa I, Akerud H. 2010. Plasma levels of beta-endorphin during pregnancy and use of labor analgesia. Reprod Sci 17:742-747.
9. Dawson ME, Schell AM, Filion DL. 2000. The electrodermal system. In:Cacioppo JT, Tassinary LG, Berntson GG, editors. Handbook of psychophysiology. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. p 200-221.
10. DiPietro JA, Costigan KA, Gurewitsch ED. 2005. Maternal psychophysiological change during the second half of gestation. Biol Psychol 69:23-38. (Pubitemid 40299380)
11. Dubé AA, Duquette M, Roy M, Lepore F, Duncan G, Rainville P. 2009. Brain activity associated with the electrodermal reactivity to acute heat pain. Neuroimage 45:169-180.
12. Dunbar AH, Price DD, Newton RA. 1988. An assessment of pain responses to thermal stimuli during stages of pregnancy. Pain 35:265-269. (Pubitemid 19010482)
13. Entringer S, Buss C, Shirtcliff EA, Cammack AL, Yim IS, Chicz-DeMet A, Sandman CA, Wadhwa PD. 2010. Attenuation of maternal psychophysiological stress responses and the maternal cortisol awakening response over the course of human pregnancy. Stress 13:258-268.
14. Gintzler AR. 1980. Endorphin-mediated increases in pain threshold during pregnancy. Science 210:193-195. (Pubitemid 11252459)
15. Gintzler AR, Liu NJ. 2001. The maternal spinal cord:Biochemical and physiological correlates of steroid-activated antinociceptive processes. Prog Brain Res 133:83-97.
16. Gjerstad AC, Storm H, Hagen R, Huiku M, Qvigstad E, Raeder J. 2007. Skin conductance or entropy for detection of non-noxious stimulation during different clinical levels of sedation. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 51:1-7. (Pubitemid 46001324)
17. Gjerstad AC, Wagner K, Henrichsen T, Storm H. 2008. Skin conductance versus the modified COMFORT sedation score as a measure of discomfort in artificially ventilated children. Pediatrics 122:848-853.
18. Glynn LM, Wadhwa PD, Dunkel-Schetter C, Chicz-Demet A, Sandman CA. 2001. When stress happens matters:Effects of earthquake timing on stress responsivity in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 184:637-642. (Pubitemid 32236713)
19. Glynn LM, Dunkel-Schetter C, Hobel CJ, Sandman CA. 2008. Pattern of percieved stress and anxiety in pregnancy predicts preterm birth. Health Psychol 27:43-51. (Pubitemid 351215346)
20. Goolkasian P, Rimer BA. 1984. Pain reactions in pregnant women. Pain 20:87-95. (Pubitemid 14033868)
21. Greenwood JP, Stoker JB, Walker JJ, Mary DA. 1998. Sympathetic nerve discharge in normal pregnancy and pregnancy-induced hypertension. J Hypertens 16:617-624. (Pubitemid 28230550)
22. Greenwood JP, Scott EM, Stoker JB, Walker JJ, Mary DA. 2001. Sympathetic neural mechanisms in normal and hypertensive pregnancy in humans. Circulation 104:2200-2204. (Pubitemid 33043300)
23. Kammerer M, Adams D, CastelbergBvB, GloverV.2002. Pregnant women become insensitive to cold stress. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2:8.
24. Ledowski T, Bromilow J, Paech MJ, Storm H, Hacking R, Schug SA. 2006. Monitoring of skin conductance to assess postoperative pain intensity. Br J Anaesth 97:862-865. (Pubitemid 44823675)
25. Matthews KA, Rodin J. 1992. Pregnancy alters blood pressure responses to psychological and physical challenge. Psychophy-siology 29:232-240.
26. Nierop A, Bratsikas A, Klinkenberg A, Nater UM, Zimmermann R, Ehlert U. 2006. Prolonged salivary cortisol recovery in second-trimester pregnant women and attenuated salivary alpha-amylase responses to psychosocial stress in human pregnancy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:1329-1335.
27. Nisell H, Hjemdahl P, Linde B, Lunell NO. 1985. Sympatho-adrenal and cardiovascular reactivity in pregnancy-induced hypertension. I. Responses to isometric exercise and a cold pressor test. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 92:722-731. (Pubitemid 15048754)
28. Petraglia F, Imperatore A, Challis JR. 2010. Neuroendocrine mechanisms in pregnancy and parturition. Endocr Rev 31:783-816.
29. Saisto T, Kaaja R, Ylikorkala O, Halmesmaki E. 2001. Reduced pain tolerance during and after pregnancy in women suffering from fear of labor. Pain 93:123-127. (Pubitemid 32568397)
30. Schobel HP, Fischer T, Heuszer K, Geiger H, Schmieder RE. 1996. Preeclampsia:A state of sympathetic overactivity. N Engl J Med 335:1480-1485.
31. Schulte HM, Weisner D, Allolio B. 1990. The corticotrophin releasing hormone test in late pregnancy:Lack of adrenocorti-cotrophin and cortisol response. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 33:99-106. (Pubitemid 20197164)
32. Sheehan DV, Lecrubier Y, Sheehan KH, Amorim P, Janavs J, Weiller E, Hergueta T, Baker R, Dunbar GC. 1998. The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI):The development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. J Clin Psychiatry 59(Suppl 20):20-33, Quiz 34-57.
33. Slattery DA, Neumann ID. 2008. No stress please! Mechanisms of stress hyporesponsiveness of the maternal brain. J Physiol 586:377-385.
34. Weinstock M. 2008. The long-term behavioural consequences of prenatal stress. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 32:1073-1086.
35. Wise V, McFarlane AC, Clark CR, Battersby M. 2011. An integrative assessment of brain and body function "at rest" in panic disorder:A combined quantitative EEG/autonomic function study. Int J Psychophysiol 79:155-165.
36. Wolf S, Hardy JD. 1941. Studies on pain:Observations on pain due to local cooling and on factors involved in the "Cold Pressor". Eff J Clin Invest 20:521-533.
37. Zakar T, Hertelendy F. 2007. Progesterone withdrawal:Key to parturition. Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:289-296.
38. Zhu P, Tao F, Hao J, Sun Y, Jiang X. 2010. Prenatal life events stress:Implications for preterm birth and infant birthweight. Am J Obstet Gynecol 203:34.e31-34.e38.