[Central temperature is the principal factor of regulation of paradoxical sleep in pontile cats]. / La température centrale est le facteur principal de régulation du sommeil paradoxal chez le chat pontique.

ABSTRACT

In chronic poïkilothermic pontile cats whose central temperature is artificially regulated, the quantity of paradoxical sleep (PS), its ultradian periodicity and the duration of PS episodes are dependent upon central temperature level and periodicity.