Pregnancy-associated sleep changes in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 4 40-4, 1996, Pages

  Kimura, Mayumi ^a   Zhang, Shi Qing ^a   Inoué, Shojiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

brain temperature; estrous cycle; gestation; non rapid eye movement sleep; rapid eye movement sleep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP;

EID: 0029970684     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.271.4.r1063     Document Type: Article

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