The pretectum mediates rapid eye movement sleep regulation by light

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 755-765

  Miller, Ann M ^a   Miller, Robert B ^a,b   Obermeyer, William H ^a,c   Behan, Mary ^a,d   Benca, Ruth M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRETECTUM; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP INDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORPORA QUADRIGEMINA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SLEEP, REM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0032886479     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.4.755     Document Type: Article

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