Effects of sleep fragmentation on the arousability to resistive loading in NREM and REM sleep in normal men

Zavodny, Jeannette; Roth, Corinne; Bassetti, Claudio L; Mathis, Johannes; Douglas, Neil J; Gugger, Matthias (2006). Effects of sleep fragmentation on the arousability to resistive loading in NREM and REM sleep in normal men. Sleep, 29(4), pp. 525-32. Darien, Ill.: American Academy of Sleep Medicine

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STUDY OBJECTIVE: In healthy subjects, arousability to inspiratory resistive loading is greater during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep compared with non-REM (NREM) sleep but is poorest in REM sleep in patients with sleep apnea. We therefore examined the hypothesis that sleep fragmentation impairs arousability, especially from REM sleep. DESIGN: Two blocks of 3 polysomnographies (separated by at least 1 week) were performed randomly. An inspiratory-loaded night followed either 2 undisturbed control nights (LN(C)) or 2 acoustically fragmented nights (LN(F)) SETTING: Sleep laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: Sixteen healthy men aged 20 to 29 years. INTERVENTIONS: In both loaded nights, an inspiratory resistive load was added via a valved facemask every 2 minutes during sleep and turned off either when arousal occurred or after 2 minutes. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: During LN(F), arousability remained significantly greater in REM sleep (71% aroused within 2 minutes) compared with stage 2 (29%) or stage 3/4 (16%) sleep. After sleep fragmentation, arousability was decreased in stage 2 sleep (LN(F): 29%; LN(C): 38%; p < .05) and low in early REM sleep, increasing across the night (p < .01). In stage 3/4 sleep, neither an attenuation nor a change across the night was seen after sleep fragmentation. CONCLUSIONS: Mild sleep fragmentation is already sufficient to attenuate arousability in stage 2 sleep and to decrease arousability in early, compared with late, REM sleep. This means that sleep fragmentation affects the arousal response to increasing resistance and that the effects are different in stage 2 and REM sleep. The biologic reason for this increase in the arousal response in REM sleep across the night is not clear.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Pneumology
UniBE Contributor:	Roth Wälti, Corinne, Mathis, Johannes, Gugger, Matthias
ISSN:	0161-8105
ISBN:	16676786
Publisher:	American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:46
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:14
PubMed ID:	16676786
Web of Science ID:	000237061300017
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/19015 (FactScience: 1380)