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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 252: R732-R736, 1987;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 4 732-R736, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Continuous resetting of the human carotid baroreceptor-cardiac reflex

G. A. Kasting, D. L. Eckberg, J. M. Fritsch and C. L. Birkett

Although human baroreflex responses have been studied during night as well as day, there has been no attempt to distinguish circadian changes of baroreflex function from those related to sleep. We measured carotid baroreceptor-cardiac reflex responses serially during a 24-h period in 11 normotensive volunteers who were awake and cooperative during testing. We applied sequences of ramped R-wave-triggered neck chamber pressure changes from +40 to -65 mmHg, during held expiration, at 3-h intervals. Subjects maintained their usual sleep-wake cycles but were awakened for three 30-min periods for night testing. There was no systematic change of baroreflex slope during the 24-h period. There were, however, parallel shifts of the entire sigmoid baroreceptor-cardiac reflex response relation along its R-R interval and arterial pressure axes associated with small, but significant, circadian changes of baseline R-R intervals and arterial pressures. Thus, although our data do not point toward major circadian variability of baro-reflex responsiveness, they provide evidence for an ongoing process of human baroreflex resetting.


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