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The reciprocal interaction between sleep and type 2 diabetes mellitus: facts and perspectives
(Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2008-03-01)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a systemic disease characterized by intolerance to glucose and peripheral resistance to insulin. This endocrine disease affects fundamental mechanisms of the central nervous system and jeopardizes ...
Sex differences in sleep pattern of rats in an experimental model of osteoarthritis
(Elsevier B.V., 2011-07-01)
Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major healthcare burden with increasing incidence, and is characterised by the degeneration of articular cartilage. OA is associated with chronic pain and sleep disturbance.Objective: ...
Paradoxical sleep deprivation impairs acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of a discriminative avoidance task in rats
(Elsevier B.V., 2008-11-01)
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) for 96 h on the learning/memory processes in rats submitted to the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT). which ...
Exercise training improves sleep pattern and metabolic profile in elderly people in a time-dependent manner
(Biomed Central Ltd, 2011-07-06)
Aging and physical inactivity are two factors that favors the development of cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes, and sleep dysfunction. in contrast, the adoption a habitual of moderate exercise ...
Sleep pattern in women with menstrual pain
(Elsevier B.V., 2011-12-01)
Background: Menstrual pain is a common problem in women of reproductive age and often interferes with the ability to work and with general well-being. Because painful conditions frequently affect sleep, we investigated the ...
Sleep Restriction during Pregnancy: Hypertension and Renal Abnormalities in Young Offspring Rats
(Amer Acad Sleep Medicine, 2010-10-01)
Study Objectives: Because the maternal environment can affect several physiological functions of the newborn, the aim of the present study was to examine the impact of sleep restriction during pregnancy on renal morphology ...
Sleep alterations in an experimental orofacial pain model in rats
(Elsevier B.V., 2003-12-12)
This study sought to assess sleep patterns in rats injected with Freund's adjuvant (FA) in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) as a potential experimental orofacial pain model. Pain response to indomethacin was also assessed. ...
The association between the Framingham risk score and sleep: A São Paulo epidemiological sleep study
(Elsevier B.V., 2012-06-01)
Background: Sleep is an important factor in the maintenance of cardiovascular integrity. It seems that cardiovascular injury and sleep impairment is another chicken or egg puzzle and we hypothesized that the higher the ...
Does menopause influence nocturnal awakening with headache?
(Informa Healthcare, 2013-06-01)
Objective the aim of the present study was to assess whether menopausal status influences the occurrence of nocturnal awakening with headache (NAH) in the female population of São Paulo, Brazil. We also examined the ...
Sleep influences the immune response and the rejection process alters sleep pattern: Evidence from a skin allograft model in mice
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2017)
Introduction: Sleep generally regulates immune functions in a supportive manner and can affect parameters that are directly involved in the rejection process. Study objectives: The first objective was to assess whether ...