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TITLE:
Vagal regulation during bottle feeding in
low-birthweight neonates: support for the gustatory-vagal hypothesis.
AUTHOR:
Portales AL; Porges SW; Doussard-Roosevelt JA;
Abedin M; Lopez R; Young MA; Beeram MR; Baker M
AUTHOR AFFILIATION:
Institute for Child Study, University of Maryland
College Park 20742, USA.
SOURCE:
Dev Psychobiol 1997 Apr;30(3):225-33
NLM CIT. ID:
97258079
ABSTRACT:
The gustatory-vagal hypothesis proposes that
gustatory stimulation elicits a coordinated vagal response manifested as an increase in
ingestive behaviors (e.g., sucking) and a decrease in nucleus ambiguus vagal tone measured
by decreases in the amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). The current study
tested the gustatory-vagal hypothesis in a bottle feeding paradigm with 29 clinically
stable, high-risk, low-birthweight neonates. The amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia
(RSA) was collected before, during, and after bottle feeding. Consistent with the
gustatory-vagal hypothesis, RSA decreased during bottle feeding. In a longitudinal
subsample of subjects, the pattern of RSA changes during the feeding paradigm was stable
across two test sessions.
Electrocardiography
Heart Rate
Human
Infant, Newborn
Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PUBLICATION TYPES:
JOURNAL ARTICLE
LANGUAGE:
Eng
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