clonidine: EEG Experiment Investigating the Effect of Clonidine in Rats

In gslcca: Generalized Semi-Linear Canonical Correlation Analysis

Description

Power spectra derived from electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements of brain activity for eight rats from a balanced four-way cross-over design experiment in which rats were dosed with three doses of clonidine (low, medium, or high) and vehicle.

Usage

data(clonidine)

Format

A data frame consisting of the following

Rat

a factor with eight levels: "35", "36", ..., "42".

Treatment

a factor with four levels: "Control", "Low Dose", "Middle Dose", "High Dose".

Time

a variable giving the time in seconds at the start of the five minute time interval over which the mean spectra was calculated.

spectra

a matrix whose rows contain mean power spectra corresponding to the design points specified by the first three variables.

Details

Eight rats were implanted with radiotelemetry transmitters intraperitoneally for recording via electroencephalogram (EEG). After a recovery period, the rats were orally dosed with three different doses of clonidine and vehicle, each rat receiving all four dose levels in a balanced four way 4 crossover design.

The rats were singly housed on a standard 12:12 h light-dark cycle and received standard diet and water ad libitum. The rats were dosed at the begining of the light period and these data correspond to following 12 hours. At least 48 hours were allowed before the next treatment was administered to avoid any drug carryover effect.

The difference in the voltages between the two electrodes at each time point was carried forward for further analysis. This consisted of taking 12-second time slices and subjecting them to FFT, which gave a power spectrum for each time slice over 36 frequencies. The power spectra were filtered by removing spectra where power at any frequency was greater than 0.1 powers greater than this were regarded as artefacts). The remaining spectra were averaged over five minute time intervals (so up to 25 spectra were averaged) to give the final set of mean spectra.

To reduce the size of the data set distributed with the package, the data have been subsampled, so that every other mean spectra has been kept.

Source

Original data produced by Pfizer Global R & D, UK.

See Also

readSpectra for creating data structures of this type from tab-delimited data files.

gslcca for GSLCCA analysis.

Examples

data(clonidine)

######################
## Example periodogram
######################

eg <- with(clonidine, { 
           list(Rat == "42" & Time == 0 & Treatment == "Control",
                Rat == "42" & Time == 8400 & Treatment == "Control")
           })

freq <- as.numeric(colnames(clonidine$spectra))
plot(freq, clonidine$spectra[eg[[2]]], type = "l", ylab =
    expression(paste("Power (", mu, V^2, ")")), lty = 2,
    xlab = "Frequency (Hz)", main = "Examples of frequency periodograms")
lines(1:36, clonidine$spectra[eg[[1]]], lty = 1)
legend("topright", c("0-300 seconds", "8400-8700 seconds"), lty = 1:2)

#######################################################################
## GSLCCA analysis for Rat 42 using separate Critical Exponential model
## for each treatment
#######################################################################

### Unsmoothed data
result <- gslcca(spectra, "Critical Exponential",
    time = Time, treatment = Treatment, subject.smooth = FALSE,
    data = clonidine, subset = Rat == "42")

## drug signature
plot(result, "signature")

## projected values
plot(result, "fitted")

### Smoothed data - automatically select number of roots
result <- gslcca(spectra, "Critical Exponential",
    time = Time, treatment = Treatment, subject.smooth = TRUE,
    data = clonidine, subset = Rat == "42")

## drug signature
plot(result, "signature")

## projected values
plot(result, "fitted")

## projected values
plot(result, "scores")

gslcca documentation built on May 31, 2017, 3:48 a.m.