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Active wakefulness and paradoxical sleep: common mechanisms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Alexander A. Borbély
Affiliation:
Institute of Pharmacology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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