Miki Sato, Feni Betriana, Ryuichi Tanioka, K. Osaka, T. Tanioka, S. Schoenhofer
{"title":"Healthy Lifestyle, Autonomic Nervous System Activity, and Sleep Status for Healthy Aging","authors":"Miki Sato, Feni Betriana, Ryuichi Tanioka, K. Osaka, T. Tanioka, S. Schoenhofer","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.101837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101837","url":null,"abstract":"With the super-aging society, it is important to pay attention to the quality of life of older people so that they can face healthy aging. Lifestyle, particularly exercise, autonomic nervous system activities, and sleep status are factors that affect the quality of aging. This chapter explores how those three variables are related and what strategies can be employed to maintain and enhance these variables to prepare. (1) The combination of healthy lifestyles, adequate physical activity, healthy dietary patterns, moderate alcohol consumption, and nonsmoking were related to the risk of cardiovascular diseases. (2) For older people, being physically active is important to the improvement of their physical and mental functions and keeping them independent and mobile. The increasing HRV after exercise might be caused by increasing vagal tone and decreasing sympathetic activity. (3) To reach healthy aging, people should maintain the proper function of autonomic balance activities. This is important because slowing down the decline in sympathetic status might delay many geriatric complaints. (4) To achieve healthy aging, maintaining a healthy sleep is essential. Thus, the key to a lifestyle that facilitates healthy aging is a balance of regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, which mediates and is mediated by autonomic nervous system activity.","PeriodicalId":230902,"journal":{"name":"Autonomic Nervous System [Working Title]","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121102440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of Environmental Stressors on Autonomic Nervous System","authors":"M. Adeniyi","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.101842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101842","url":null,"abstract":"Stress can be described as the perception of discomforts physically, psychologically, or physico-psychologically. During stress, the perceived discomfort indicates there is a deviation from homeostasis. In stress, there is a nonspecific physiological response to stressors, a group of stress-inducing phenomena. Stress-inducing phenomena can be defined as environmental insults, such as perturbed levels of light, temperature, chemicals, ambient oxygen, and noise. Response to stress occurs via the chemical messenger-mediated sympathetic nervous system including the autonomic-adrenal axis. Furthermore, the chemical messenger-mediated sympathetic nervous system determines nonhormonal effects which are often devised as general stress markers. Examples of general stress markers include changes in heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, body temperature, blood glucose, baroreflex sensitivity, among others.","PeriodicalId":230902,"journal":{"name":"Autonomic Nervous System [Working Title]","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133581059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signaling Pathways Regulating Axogenesis and Dendritogenesis in Sympathetic Neurons","authors":"V. Chandrasekaran","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.102442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102442","url":null,"abstract":"The post-ganglionic sympathetic neurons play an important role in modulating visceral functions and maintaining homeostasis through complex and reproducible axonal and dendritic connections between individual neurons and with their target tissues. Disruptions in these connections and in sympathetic nervous system function are observed in several neurological, cardiac and immune-related disorders, which underscores the need for understanding the mechanisms underlying neuronal polarity, axonal growth and dendritic growth in these neurons. The goals of this chapter are to explore our current understanding of the various growth factors, their signaling pathways, downstream effectors and interplay between these pathways to regulate different stages of axonal and dendritic growth in sympathetic neurons.","PeriodicalId":230902,"journal":{"name":"Autonomic Nervous System [Working Title]","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121028013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Autonomic Nervous System, Sex Differences, and Chronobiology under General Anesthesia in In Vivo Experiments Involving Rats","authors":"P. Svorc Jr, P. Švorc","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.101075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101075","url":null,"abstract":"The aim was to evaluate the current state of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity under general anesthesia using heart rate variability (HRV) in dependence on the light-dark (LD) cycle in healthy, sexually mature, spontaneously breathing, zoletil-anesthetized (30 mg/kg) Wistar rats of both sexes after a 4-week adaptation to an LD cycle (12 h:12 h). The animals were divided into four experimental groups according to sex and light period (n = 20 each). RR interval duration, spectral power at very-low-frequency (VLF), low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF), total spectral power of HRV, and the LF/HF ratio were analyzed. Sympathetic and baroreceptor activity was decreased, and parasympathetic activity was increased in both sexes and in both light periods. Regarding sex differences, HRV was significantly lower in females versus males in the light period. In the dark period, females exhibited higher HRV than males. Regarding LD differences, in females, HRV was lower in the light versus the dark period, unlike males, in which HRV was higher in the dark versus the light period of the rat regimen day. Sex differences in the activity of the ANS were apparent in rats, persisted under general anesthesia, and were dependent on the LD cycle.","PeriodicalId":230902,"journal":{"name":"Autonomic Nervous System [Working Title]","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129059520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}