Promotion of non-rapid eye movement sleep in mice after oral administration of ornithine

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-45

  Omori, Ken ^a   Kagami, Yoshiaki ^a   Yokoyama, Chikako ^b   Moriyama, Tomoko ^b   Matsumoto, Naomi ^b   Masaki, Mika ^b   Nakamura, Hiroyasu ^a   Kamasaka, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraishi, Koso ^a   Kometani, Takashi ^a   Kuriki, Takashi ^a   Huang, Zhi Li ^b   Urade, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a EZAKI GLICO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Mouse; Non rapid eye movement sleep; Ornithine; Power spectrum analysis; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

ORNITHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84855720380     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2011.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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