Ambient temperature that induces maximum sleep in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 186-191

  Kumar, Deependra ^a   Mallick, Hruda Nanda ^a   Kumar, Velayudhan Mohan ^a,b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Body temperature; Diurnal oscillation; Medial preoptic area; Sleep; Thermal preferences; Thermoneutral zone; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; THERMOREGULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67649502858     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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