Continuous exposure to dim illumination uncouples temporal patterns of sleep, body temperature, locomotion and drinking behavior in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-189

  Ikeda, Masayuki ^a,b   Sagara, Masami ^a,b   Inoué, Shojiro ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain temperature; Circadian rhythm; Continuous dim illumination; Drinking; Intraperitoneal temperature; Locomotion; Non rapid eye movement sleep; Rapid eye movement sleep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRINKING; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP;

EID: 0033984753     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00943-X     Document Type: Article

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