Progesterone microinjections into the pontine reticular formation modify sleep in male and female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-12

  Camacho Arroyo, Ignacio ^a   Hernández Gollas, Rosa ^a   Manjarrez, Joaquín ^b   Alvarado, Raúl ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Pontine reticular formation; Progesterone; Rapid eye movement sleep; Sleep waking cycle; Steroids

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROINJECTIONS; PONS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0345643385     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00403-6     Document Type: Article

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