| Literature DB >> 17769218 |
L E Walker, J M Walker, J W Palca, R J Berger.
Abstract
Fasting doves entered shallow torpor during nocturnal sleep. Body temperature dropped lower each successive night by 1 degrees to 3 degrees in parallel with diminished rapid-eye-movement sleep until torpor was composed almost entirely of slow-wave sleep at a body temperature of 30 degrees to 32 degrees C. Shallow torpor in doves, as in mammals, thus appears to lie on a metabolic continuum with sleep.Entities:
Year: 1983 PMID: 17769218 DOI: 10.1126/science.221.4606.194
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728