Characteristic changes in sleep patterns during pregnancy in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-8

  Nishina, Hidenori ^a   Honda, Kazuki ^b   Okai, Takashi ^a   Kozuma, Shiro ^a   Inoué, Shojiro ^b   Taketani, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain temperature; Non rapid eye movement sleep; Polysomnography; Pregnancy; Rapid eye movement sleep; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN;

EID: 0030050120     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12249-4     Document Type: Article

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