Spontaneous K-complexes in behaving rats

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-67

  Marini, G ^a   Ceccarelli, P ^a   Mancia, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; NECK MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPECTRUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 1442280660     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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