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ArticleComparative medicine2014

Effects of sleep fragmentation on sleep and markers of inflammation in mice.

Rita A Trammell, Steve Verhulst, Linda A Toth

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Article in Comparative medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rita A TrammellDepartment of Internal Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
Steve VerhulstDepartment of Statistics and Research Informatics, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
Linda A TothDepartment of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA ltoth@siumed.edu.
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

Many people in our society experience curtailment and disruption of sleep due to work responsibilities, care-giving, or life style choice. Delineating the health effect of acute and chronic disruptions in sleep is essential to raising awareness of and creating interventions to manage these prevalent concerns. To provide a platform for studying the health impact and underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms associated with inadequate sleep, we developed and characterized an approach to creating chronic disruption of sleep in laboratory mice. We used this method to evaluate how 3 durations of sleep fragmentation (SF) affect sleep recuperation and blood and lung analyte concentrations in male C57BL/6J mice. Mice housed in environmentally controlled chambers were exposed to automated SF for periods of 6, 12, or 24 h or for 12 h daily during the light (somnolent) phase for 4 sequential days. Sleep time, slow-wave amplitude, or bout lengths were significantly higher when uninterrupted sleep was permitted after each of the 3 SF durations. However, mice did not recover all of the lost slow-wave sleep during the subsequent 12- to 24-h period and maintained a net loss of sleep. Light-phase SF was associated with significant changes in serum and lung levels of some inflammatory substances, but these changes were not consistent or sustained. The data indicate that acute light-phase SF can result in a sustained sleep debt in mice and may disrupt the inflammatory steady-state in serum and lung.

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Circadian RhythmSleepAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBiomarkersDisease Models, AnimalInflammation MediatorsLungMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPneumoniaRisk FactorsSleep Wake DisordersTime FactorsBiomarkersInflammation Mediators

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PMID24512957
PMCPMC3929215
OpenAlexW2346906636

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