Submissions tagged with sleep
(3 documents)
Circadian Preference and Sexual Selection: A Novel Evolutionary Approach
Human sleep patterns differ across age groups and between males and females, and their association with age and gender suggest that they might have been the target of sexual selection during human …
Received 21 March 2009 15:16 UTC; Posted 31 March 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
Overnight weight loss: relationship with sleep structure and heart rate variability
Background: Weight loss can be caused by a loss of body mass due to metabolism and by water loss as unsensible water loss, sweating, or excretion in feces and urine. Although weight loss during sle…
Received 30 September 2008 18:50 UTC; Posted 30 September 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Neuroscience
Selective loss of GABAB receptors in orexin/hypocretin-producing neurons results in disrupted sleep/wakefulness architecture
We generated mice with a selective loss of GABAB receptors in orexin neurons. Orexin neurons in these GABAB1-/-(orexin) mice showed reduced responsiveness to GABAA receptor ag…
Received 29 September 2007 00:53 UTC; Posted 01 October 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
