The promnesic neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate increases paradoxical sleep in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 818, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 492-498

  Darnaudéry, Muriel ^a   Bouyer, Jean Jacques ^a   Pallarés, Marc ^b   Le Moal, Michel ^a   Mayo, Willy ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive enhancer; EEG; REM sleep; Sleep wakefulness cycle; Steroid

Indexed keywords

NEUROSTEROID; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP, REM; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033550698     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01338-9     Document Type: Article

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