Ambient temperature during torpor affects NREM sleep EEG during arousal episodes in hibernating European ground squirrels

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 221, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 177-180

  Strijkstra, Arjen M ^a   Daan, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ambient temperature; arousal episode; hibernation; sleep; spectral analysis; torpor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIBERNATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; OVUM; SCIURIDAE; SLEEP; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031035654     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13321-8     Document Type: Article

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