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    How Losing Sleep Following Vaccination May Weaken the Response to SARS-CoV Vaccines

    With the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, a close analysis of factors that affect the efficacy of the vaccine in different groups is a must. It is important to elucidate the role of clinical, behavioral a...

    Nasreen Akhtar, Rupesh K. Srivastava, Deepak Shrivastava in Sleep and Vigilance (2022)

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    The Wake Promoting Role of the Mediodorsal Thalamic Nuclei in Rat

    Mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MD) is a higher order thalamic nucleus and plays an important role in memory, olfaction, cognitive functions and sleep pathology. However, its role in sleep–wake regulation needs ...

    Sriji Somanath, Binney Sharma, Preeti Puskar, Avishek Roy in Sleep and Vigilance (2022)

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    Electroencephalographic and Electromyographic Events During Spontaneous and Final Arousal from Sleep: Study of the Sequence of Appearance and Significance

    Though there are excellent reviews on the functional significance of spontaneous arousals during sleep, associated electroencephalographic (EEG) and electromyographic (EMG) changes need further studies. Moreov...

    Shaheen Yawar Bhat, Nasreen Akhtar, Trina Sengupta, Ritesh Netam in Sleep and Vigilance (2022)

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    Neurophysiology of Dreams

    The first systematic accounts of dreams were made by Aristotle in 350 BC. In 1957, Dement demonstrated the occurrence of dreams during REM sleep. Numerous “theories” of dreams have been postulated in the twent...

    Nasreen Akhtar in Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (2022)

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    Tailoring of Structural and Magnetic Properties of Sputter-Deposited Terfenol-D Thin Films by Optimizing the Substrate Temperature

    In this paper, sputter-deposited Terfenol-D thin films were grown on MgO/Al2O3 substrates by DC-magnetron sputtering using single target having composition of Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe1.92. The temperature of substrate was pu...

    Salma Ikram, Jolly Jacob, Khurram Mehboob in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Mag… (2021)

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    Ravi Gupta, S.R. Pandi-Perumal, Ahmed S. BaHammam: Clinical Atlas of Polysomnography: A Book Review

    Nasreen Akhtar in Sleep and Vigilance (2021)

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    An integrin–ILK–microtubule network orients cell polarity and lumen formation in glandular epithelium

    The extracellular matrix has a crucial role in determining the spatial orientation of epithelial polarity and the formation of lumens in glandular tissues; however, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. By...

    Nasreen Akhtar, Charles H. Streuli in Nature Cell Biology (2013)