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ReviewComparative medicine2013

Animal models of sleep disorders.

Linda A Toth, Pavan Bhargava

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Review in Comparative medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda A TothDepartment of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA. ltoth@siumed.edu
Pavan Bhargava
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Fatigue in a Chronic Viral DiseaseR01AI080576 · NIAID · SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCH OF MED · PI TOTH, LINDA A · 2008 to 2012
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS AI080576NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI080576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Problems with sleep affect a large part of the general population, with more than half of all people in the United States reporting difficulties with sleep or insufficient sleep at various times and about 40 million affected chronically. Sleep is a complex physiologic process that is influenced by many internal and environmental factors, and problems with sleep are often related to specific personal circumstances or are based on subjective reports from the affected person. Although human subjects are used widely in the study of sleep and sleep disorders, the study of animals has been invaluable in developing our understanding about the physiology of sleep and the underlying mechanisms of sleep disorders. Historically, the use of animals for the study of sleep disorders has arguably been most fruitful for the condition of narcolepsy, in which studies of dogs and mice revealed previously unsuspected mechanisms for this condition. The current overview considers animal models that have been used to study 4 of the most common human sleep disorders-insomnia, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and sleep apnea-and summarizes considerations relevant to the use of animals for the study of sleep and sleep disorders. Animal-based research has been vital to the elucidation of mechanisms that underlie sleep, its regulation, and its disorders and undoubtedly will remain crucial for discovering and validating sleep mechanisms and testing interventions for sleep disorders.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsDogsFemaleMaleMiceNarcolepsyRatsRestless Legs SyndromeSleep Apnea SyndromesSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersSleep Wake Disorders

Identifiers

PMID23582416
PMCPMC3625050
OpenAlexW182302572

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