A preliminary study of sleep in the ferret, Mustela putorius furo: A carnivore with an extremely high proportion of REM sleep

Sleep

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-93

  Marks, Gerald A ^a   Shaffery, James P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Ferret; Parachlorophenylalanine; Sensory motor rhythm; Spindles

Indexed keywords

FENCLONINE; SEROTONIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FERRET; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PONTOGENICULOOCCIPITAL WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0029940945     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/19.2.83     Document Type: Article

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