Systemic homeostasis and poikilostasis in sleep: is rem sleep a physiological paradox?
Auteur :
Parmeggiani, Pier Luigi
Éditeur :
Imperial College Press
ISBN :
9781848165724
Date de publication :
14 déc. 2010
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Presents a description of the physiologic manifestations of sleep that are significant from the viewpoint of the principle of homeostasis. This book shows that the systemic homeostatic regulation of many physiologic variables underlying cellular life is not active in a particular state of the ultradian sleep cycle in mammals.