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Given that respiration modulates muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), which decreases during HP and increases during CA, the net effects of PB on MSNA may critically depend on HP length.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Objectives:<\/jats:bold> We hypothesized that PB with shorter periods of HP is associated with increased MSNA and decreased heart rate variability.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> 10 healthy participants underwent microelectrode recordings of MSNA from the common peroneal nerve along with non-invasive recording of HRV, blood pressure and respiration. Following a 10-min period of tidal breathing, participants were asked to simulate PB for 3\u00a0min following a computed respiratory waveform that emulated two PB patterns, comprising a constant CA of 20\u00a0s duration and HP of two different lengths: short (20\u00a0s) vs long (40\u00a0s). Results: Compared to (3\u00a0min of) normal breathing, simulated PB with short HP resulted in a marked increase in mean and maximum MSNA amplitude (from 3.2 \u00b1 0.8 to 3.4 \u00b1 0.8\u00a0\u00b5V, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.04; from 3.8 \u00b1 0.9 to 4.3 \u00b1 1.1\u00a0\u00b5V, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.04, respectively). This was paralleled by an increase in LF\/HF ratio of heart rate variability (from 0.9 \u00b1 0.5 to 2.0 \u00b1 1.3; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.04). In contrast, MSNA response to simulated PB with long HP did not change as compared to normal breathing. Single CA events consistently resulted in markedly increased MSNA (all <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01) when compared to the preceding HPs, while periods of HP, regardless of duration, decreased MSNA (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05) when compared to normal breathing.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Overall, the net effects of PB in healthy subjects over time on MSNA are dependent on the relative duration of HP: increased sympathetic outflow is seen during PB with a short but not with a long period of HP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2022.934372","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,5]],"date-time":"2022-09-05T05:50:53Z","timestamp":1662357053000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Effects of hyperventilation length on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in healthy humans simulating periodic breathing"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jens","family":"Spiesshoefer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alberto","family":"Giannoni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chiara","family":"Borrelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"Sciarrone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Imke","family":"Husstedt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Emdin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Claudio","family":"Passino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Florian","family":"Kahles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tye","family":"Dawood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Binaya","family":"Regmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthew","family":"Naughton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Dreher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthias","family":"Boentert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vaughan G.","family":"Macefield","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","first-page":"597","article-title":"The AASM manual for the scoring of sleep and associated events","volume":"8","author":"Berry Rb Gamaldo","year":"2012","journal-title":"J Clin Sleep Med"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"602","DOI":"10.1093\/eurjhf\/hfp057","article-title":"Sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction","volume":"11","author":"Bitter","year":"2009","journal-title":"Eur. 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