Sleep during arousal episodes as a function of prior torpor duration in hibernating European ground squirrels

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-43

  Strijkstra, Arjen M ^a,b   Daan, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground squirrel; Hibernation; Periodic arousal episode; Sleep; Spectral analysis; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SQUIRREL;

EID: 0030973888     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1997.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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