Sleep phenotype in the Townes mouse model of sickle cell disease.

CONCLUSIONS: The presence of decreased total NREM sleep associated with reduced arousals, in the absence of OSAS, suggests a distinctive underlying sleep phenotype in a mouse model of SCD.
PMID: 30159633 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Sleep and Breathing - August 29, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: O'Donnell BJ, Guo L, Ghosh S, Shah FA, Strollo PJ, McVerry BJ, Gladwin MT, Ofori-Acquah SF, Kato GJ, O'Donnell CP Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research