The influence of the rostropontine-ventrolateral region on the sleep-wakefulness cycle

Experientia. 1978 Jan 15;34(1):61-2. doi: 10.1007/BF01921902.

Abstract

Lesions affecting the ventrolateral area of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis produced, in chronic implanted cats, a significant decrease of paradoxical sleep.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cats
  • Electrodes, Implanted
  • Electroencephalography
  • Electromyography
  • Pons* / physiology
  • Sleep Stages*
  • Stereotaxic Techniques