Stopped: PI left the university and is no longer in a full time employment role
The regulation of total body water that defines human hydration status is a complex and dynamic process. Current methods of assessing hydration status (e.g. hematologic and urinary analyses) lack the ability to track changes in hydration status in real-time due to whole-body homeostatic physiologic processes required to maintain central pressure and cardiovascular function. This project will address this problem by assessing the relationship between autonomic function (measured using heart rate variability), a brain-derived process that regulates cardiovascular function, and changes in the hydration-mediated hormone vasopressin.
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Change in autonomic function
Timeframe: 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 minutes of saline infusion period