Cardiac Autonomic Activity during Human Sleep: Analysis of Sleep Stages and Sleep Cycles

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 493-502

  Van Eekelen, Alexander P J ^a   Varkevisser, Michel ^a   Kerkhof, Gerard A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Sleep and Wake Disorders   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Parasympathetic nervous system activity; Sleep cycles; Sleep stages; Sympathetic nervous system activity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CARDIOLOGY; SLEEP;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 1642484182     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/brhm.34.5.493.27850     Document Type: Article

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