Seasonal aspects of sleep in the Djungarian hamster

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Palchykova, Svitlana ^a   Deboer, Tom ^b   Tobler, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Djungarian hamster; EEG; Photoperiod; Seasonality; Sleep; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RECORDING; REM SLEEP; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SUMMER; WAKEFULNESS; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 2642561288     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-4-9     Document Type: Article

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