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Nature Medicine 6, 606 (2000)
doi:10.1038/76135
Peripheral vasoconstriction during REM sleep detected by a new plethysmographic method
Peretz Lavie1, Robert P. Schnall2, Jacob Sheffy2 & Arie Shlitner1
- Sleep Laboratory, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Itamar Medical Ltd., Caesarea, Israel
e-mail: plavie@tx.technion.ac.il
Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep is associated with more sympathetic activation than is NONREM sleep1, 2. So far, there are no data regarding vascular tone during REM and NONREM sleep in humans.
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