Non-specific neural stimuli and metabolic rhythms in rats
Physiologia Bohemoslovaca
|January 1, 1978
Abstract:
Ten rats housed in individual metabolism cages in a room next to a teaching laboratory showed rhythmic fluctuations in urination and defaecation. Sectral analysis of the data indicates a weekly rhythm which is attributed to the lack of neural stimuli at the weekend. Regression analysis using a weekly cycle illustrates this effect.
