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The relationship of sleep with temperature and metabolic rate in a hibernating primate.
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Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES: It has long been suspected that sleep is important for regulating body temperature and metabolic-rate. Hibernation, a state of acute hypothermia and reduced metabolic-rate, offers a promising system for investigating those relationships.
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