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The influence of deep controlled breathing on phase coherence of respiratory-related skin blood flow oscillations of left and right finger-pad forefingers in 29 healthy young females was studied. Breathing was controlled on both rate (0.25, 0.16, 0.1, 0.07 and 0.05 Hz) and depth (40% of the maximal chest excursion). The correlation degree between the phases of respiratory-related skin blood flow oscillations of left and right fingers was estimated from the value of wavelet phase coherence . We obtained the significant increase of phase coherence for all analyzed frequencies of controlled breathing as compared to spontaneous one. The maximal increase was observed for controlled breathing at 0.25 Hz, at a frequency close to the spontaneous one. We suggest that the observed effects are primarily due to an increase of breathing depth. Under spontaneous breathing depth does not exceed 15% of the maximal chest excursion, while in the present study the breathing depth was 40%. The results obtained can be attributed to the effects of the autonomic nervous system on vascular tone regulation under controlled breathing .
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Tankanag, A.V., Krasnikov, G.V., Chemeris, N.K. (2021). Phase Coherence of Finger Skin Blood Flow Oscillations Induced by Controlled Breathing in Humans. In: Stefanovska, A., McClintock, P.V.E. (eds) Physics of Biological Oscillators. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59805-1_18
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