Dynamics of skin conductance at a weak low-frequency pulsed acoustic or IR exposure in children with pulmonary tuberculosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina A. Belyakova ◽  
Olga V. Filinyuk ◽  
Olga Y. Nikiforova ◽  
Olga A. Jafarova ◽  
Yurii N. Ponomarev ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Irina A. Belyakova ◽  
Olga V. Filinyuk ◽  
Vladimir P. Mamyshev ◽  
Olga Y. Nikiforova ◽  
Olga A. Jafarova ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ankita Soni ◽  
Kirti Rawal

The sympathetic and parasympathetic function of the Autonomic Nervous System[Formula: see text]ANS[Formula: see text] is the primary cause of the variations in Heart Rate and Skin Conductance[Formula: see text]SC[Formula: see text] during different physical activities. This paper aims to analyze the effect of different physical activities i.e. (a) Supine (b) Standing and (c) Warm-up, on Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and SC. The standard dataset of 18 subjects has been used to analyze the effect of physical activities on the HRV and SC. In the used dataset, the subjects are in supine, standing, and warm-up positions. The linear methods (time domain & frequency domain) of HRV are implemented on the standard dataset for analyzing the effect of physical activities. It has been observed with the analysis of the HRV that the mean value of time domain methods i.e. the NN interval’s standard deviation (SDNN), the successive RR interval’s root mean square (RMSSD), RR intervals with more than 50 ms differences in between them (NN50), percentage of successive RR intervals that have the difference of more than 50 ms (pNN50) are decreased and the value of Heart rate (HR) increased when the activity has been changed from supine to standing and standing to the warm-up positions. The value of frequency domain methods, such as low frequency (LF) and the ratio of low and high frequency (LF/HF) increased, while the value of HF decreases as activity changes from supine to standing and from supine to warm-up position. Further, the increment is also observed in the value of SC when activity is switched from supine to standing and from standing to the warm-up position. It is concluded from the results that there is a significant decrement that is observed in the value of HRV, while the increment is observed in the value of SC and HR. Decrement of HRV reflects that the sympathetic activity is increased as activity changed from supine to standing and further from standing to warm-up positions.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Michael Dunham ◽  
Amanda L. Burger ◽  
Barbara M. Hileman ◽  
Elisha A. Chance ◽  
Amy E. Hutchinson

BACKGROUND Hypnosis was induced to enhance reductions in Bispectral Index™ (BIS) values. OBJECTIVE Autonomic monitoring was used to assess physiologic relaxation and explore their associations with BIS values. METHODS Each session consisted of reading a 4-minute baseline neutral script and playing an 18-minute hypnosis tape to 3 researchers involved in the BIS neurofeedback study. In addition to BIS monitoring, autonomic monitoring was performed and included measures of electromyography, skin temperature, skin conductance, respiratory rate, expired carbon dioxide, and heart rate variability. The t-test, correlation analyses, and multivariate linear regression analyses were used in data analysis. RESULTS Hypnosis was associated with reductions in BIS (P<.001), electromyography (P<.001), respiratory rate (P<.001), skin conductance (P=.006), and very low frequency power (P=.04) and with increases in expired carbon dioxide (P<.001), skin temperature (P=.04), high frequency power (P<.001), and successive heart interbeat interval difference (P=.04) values. Decreased BIS values were associated with reduced electromyography measures (R=.76; P<.001), respiratory rate (R=.35; P=.004), skin conductance (R=.57; P<.001), and low frequency power (R=.32; P=.01) and with increased high frequency power (R=-.53; P<.001), successive heart interbeat interval difference (R=-.32; P=.009), and standard deviation of heart interbeat interval (R=-.26; P=.04) values. CONCLUSIONS Hypnosis appeared to induce mental and physical relaxation, enhance parasympathetic neural activation, and attenuate sympathetic nervous system activity, changes that were associated with BIS values. Findings of the preliminary formative evaluation suggest that the current hypnosis model may be useful for assessing autonomic physiological associations with changes in BIS values, thus motivating us to proceed with a larger investigation in trauma center nurses and physicians. CLINICALTRIAL None


2017 ◽  
Vol 216 (6) ◽  
pp. 632-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neesha Rockwood ◽  
Frederick Sirgel ◽  
Elizabeth Streicher ◽  
Robin Warren ◽  
Graeme Meintjes ◽  
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Author(s):  
Irina A. Belyakova ◽  
Olga V. Filinyuk ◽  
Vladimir P. Mamyshev ◽  
Olga Y. Nikiforova ◽  
Olga A. Jafarova ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Ru Lai ◽  
Ben-Chung Cheng ◽  
Nai-Wen Tsai ◽  
Wen-Chan Chiu ◽  
Jung-Fu Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Clinical studies show that either heart rate variability (HRV) or electrochemical skin conductance (ESC) alone can serve as a simple and objective method for screening cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN). We tested the hypothesis that combining these two quantitative approaches can provide a better estimate of CAN severity in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who had already suffered from CAN in outpatient clinics.Methods: Each patient received a complete battery of cardiovascular autonomic reflex tests (CARTs), with ESC measured by SUDOSCAN, time domain measured by standard deviation of all normal RR intervals (SDNN) and frequency domain of HRV (low frequency [LF], high frequency [HF], and LF/HF ratio), and peripheral blood studies for vascular risk factors. Severity of CAN was measured by CAN score.Results: The 90 T2DM patients included 50 males and 40 females. Those with more severe CAN had a higher CAN score value (P<0.0001) and lower values in feet ESC (P=0.023) and SDNN (P<0.0001). Stepwise linear regression analysis also showed that feet ESC and SDNN value (P<0.0001 and P<0.0001) were significantly associated with CAN score, respectively.Conclusions: Based on our results, a combination of electrophysiologic biomarkers (SDNN and feet ESC) as a test battery can improve the diagnostic accuracy and reinforce the accuracy in estimating CAN severity and can serve as a time-effective screening service in outpatient clinics.


Author(s):  
K. Hama

The lateral line organs of the sea eel consist of canal and pit organs which are different in function. The former is a low frequency vibration detector whereas the latter functions as an ion receptor as well as a mechano receptor.The fine structure of the sensory epithelia of both organs were studied by means of ordinary transmission electron microscope, high voltage electron microscope and of surface scanning electron microscope.The sensory cells of the canal organ are polarized in front-caudal direction and those of the pit organ are polarized in dorso-ventral direction. The sensory epithelia of both organs have thinner surface coats compared to the surrounding ordinary epithelial cells, which have very thick fuzzy coatings on the apical surface.


Author(s):  
Robert E. Nordquist ◽  
J. Hill Anglin ◽  
Michael P. Lerner

A human breast carcinoma cell line (BOT-2) was derived from an infiltrating duct carcinoma (1). These cells were shown to have antigens that selectively bound antibodies from breast cancer patient sera (2). Furthermore, these tumor specific antigens could be removed from the living cells by low frequency sonication and have been partially characterized (3). These proteins have been shown to be around 100,000 MW and contain approximately 6% hexose and hexosamines. However, only the hexosamines appear to be available for lectin binding. This study was designed to use Concanavalin A (Con A) and Ricinus Communis (Ricin) agglutinin for the topagraphical localization of D-mannopyranosyl or glucopyranosyl and D-galactopyranosyl or DN- acetyl glactopyranosyl configurations on BOT-2 cell surfaces.


Author(s):  
P. A. Marsh ◽  
T. Mullens ◽  
D. Price

It is possible to exceed the guaranteed resolution on most electron microscopes by careful attention to microscope parameters essential for high resolution work. While our experience is related to a Philips EM-200, we hope that some of these comments will apply to all electron microscopes.The first considerations are vibration and magnetic fields. These are usually measured at the pre-installation survey and must be within specifications. It has been our experience, however, that these factors can be greatly influenced by the new facilities and therefore must be rechecked after the installation is completed. The relationship between the resolving power of an EM-200 and the maximum tolerable low frequency interference fields in milli-Oerstedt is 10 Å - 1.9, 8 Å - 1.4, 6 Å - 0.8.


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