[Central mechanisms of sleep-wakefulness cycle]

Fiziol Cheloveka. 2011 Jul-Aug;37(4):124-34.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Brief anatomical, physiological and neurochemical basics of the regulation of wakefulness, slow wave (NREM) sleep and paradoxical (REM) sleep are regarded as representing by the end of the first decade of the second millennium.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping
  • Electroencephalography
  • Humans
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / physiology*
  • Mice
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Neuropeptides / physiology*
  • Orexins
  • Rats
  • Sleep, REM / physiology*
  • Wakefulness / physiology*

Substances

  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Neuropeptides
  • Orexins