title: The intermediate stage of sleep in mice.
abstract: Seven mice of Balb/C strain were implanted with electrodes to perform sleep-waking recordings. In 100% of the cases, the mice showed, prior to paradoxical sleep, the intermediate stage of sleep characterized by high-amplitude cortical spindles interspersed with slow waves and low-frequency theta rhythm in the dorsal hippocampus. Consequently, the intermediate stage which seems to correspond to a transient functional isolated forebrain does exist in the rat, cat and mouse. in the rat, cat and mouse.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychophysiologie, Facultè des Sciences, Université de Nice, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Glin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arnaud
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berracochea
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Galey
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jaffard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gottesmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*; D013826:Theta Rhythm; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology*