Effect of melatonin on sleep and brain temperature in the Djungarian hamster and the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-82

  Huber, Reto ^a   Deboer, Tom ^a   Schwierin, Barbara ^a   Tobler, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cortical temperature; Melatonin; Phodopus sungorus; Rat; Sleep; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032144331     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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