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Sleep in mice with nonfunctional growth hormone-releasing hormone receptors.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Jan 2003
Obal Ferenc, Alt Jeremiah, Taishi Ping, Gardi Janos, Krueger James M
Abstract excerpt
The role of the somatotropic axis in sleep regulation was studied by using the lit/lit mouse with nonfunctional growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptors (GHRH-Rs) and control heterozygous C57BL/6J mice, which have a normal phenotype. During the light period, the lit/lit mice displayed significantly less spontaneous rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) and non-REMS (NREMS) than the controls....
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