The influence of the rostropontine-ventrolateral region on the sleep-wakefulness cycle.
Lesions affecting the ventrolateral area of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis produced, in chronic implanted cats, a significant decrease of paradoxical sleep.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D011149:Pons / Q000502:physiology; D012894:Sleep Stages; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques