Narcoleptic canines display periodic leg movements during sleep

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 243-244

  Okura, Mutsumi ^a   Fujiki, Nobuhiro ^a   Ripley, Beth ^a   Takahashi, Shotaro ^a   Amitai, Nurith ^a   Mignot, Emmanuel ^a   Nishino, Seiji ^a,b  

^a Stanford California and Cofounder   (United States)

^b Center for Narcolepsy   (United States)

Author keywords

All; Animal model; Dogs; Dopamine agonists; Dopamine D2 D3 receptor; Hypocretin; Narcolepsy; Orexin; Periodic leg movements during sleep

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CATAPLEXY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER;

ANIMALS; DOGS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; POINT MUTATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0034989652     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00842.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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