Systemic Homeostasis And Poikilostasis In Sleep: Is Rem Sleep A Physiological Paradox? - Parmeggiani, Pier Luigi (Univ Di Bologna, Italy)

Presents a description of the physiologic manifestations of sleep that are significant from the viewpoint of the principle of homeostasis. This book shows that the systemic homeostatic regulation of many physiologic variables underlying cellular life is not active in a particular state of the ultradian sleep cycle in mammals.