In male rats, third-ventricle infusion of DSIP enhanced the nocturnal amount of slow wave sleep compared with the previous night under saline.
In plain wordsIn male rats, DSIP infused into the brain increased slow wave sleep compared with a night with saline.
- Outcome
- IncreaseSlow wave sleep amount
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Freely behaving male rats, third ventricle infusion- Comparator
- Saline infusion on the previous night
- Outcome group
- Sleep · Sleep
- Studied dose
- 2.5 nmol · third ventricle infusion · 10 hAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
SWS was enhanced by the d-type of di-1-methylheptyl-2,5-dioxocyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylate (d-DOC, 2.3 nmol), delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP 2.5 nmol), deoxyuridine (0.1 nmol), muramyl dipeptide (MDP, 2.0 nmol), and prostaglandin D2 (PGD2, 0.36 nmol).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Putative sleep substances were infused either singly or in combination into the third ventricle of freely behaving male rats for 10 h nocturnal period.
The nocturnal amount of slow wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS), and the number and duration of their episodes were compared to those of the previous night under saline infusion.