A second-generation recording system for skin electrical relative resistance variations can non-invasively assess cutaneous sympathetic nervous system activity, which is decreased in diabetic autonomic neuropathy.
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The functional status of the cutaneous division of the orthosympathetic nervous system was indirectly and non-invasively assessed by monitoring the skin electrical relative resistance variations (SERV). The advantages of our recording system of second generation were (1) simultaneous recording on two or four channels of the evoked electrodermal response to psychic or to sensorial stimulus; (2) self-balancing system which allows the recording of the relative variation of the electric parameter, i.e. its variation with time; (3) precise determination of the amplitude (omega/s, mu F/s) of the evoked response; (4) reference of the latency time (LT) of the evoked response to the length of the anatomical pathway of the signal giving the autonomic conduction velocity (ACV). Decrease in diabetic autonomic neuropathy of both spontaneous and evoked electrodermal activities suggested their relationship with cutaneous sympathetic activity.
May support non-invasive sympathetic assessment in diabetic neuropathy; leaves open clinical adoption pending validation studies.
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Ionescu-Tîrgovişte et al. (1990) studied this question.
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