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Noninvasive, High-throughput Determination of Sleep Duration in Rodents
JoVE Journal
Behavior
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JoVE Journal Behavior
Noninvasive, High-throughput Determination of Sleep Duration in Rodents
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07:33 min

April 18, 2018

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 00:37Setting up the Sleep Detection Units
  • 02:14Animal Setup
  • 03:05Software to Record Sleep
  • 06:15Results: Percentage of Sleep Time in the Light and the Dark Phases Across the Fourteen-day Recording Period
  • 07:04Conclusion

Summary

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We describe a high-throughput method of measuring sleep by means of activity-based home-cage monitoring. This method offers advantages over traditional EEG-based methods. It is well validated for the determination of total sleep duration and can be a powerful tool to monitor sleep in rodent models of human disease.

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