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In nocturnal rodents, lesioning the SCN results in more fragmented sleep, with lower EEG delta power, but leaving the daily sleep time unchanged [ 6 7 8 31 ] . Lesioning the SCN in a diurnal primate, the squirrel monkey, did result in an increase in NREMS time, but sleep was more fragmented, with a higher proportion of 'light' NREMS [ 5 ] ; i.e., with lower overall levels of EEG delta power.
Jenssen et al manually examined 1,000 randomly selected pairs from the network of genes that had been created using this method: the proportion of incorrect (biologically meaningless) pairs were 40% for the low-weight category and 29% for the high-weight category.
This higher proportion of older veteran users, coupled with the fact that comparatively fewer older men underwent revascularization procedures in the VA, may in part explain the decline in use rates in veterans.
When U73343 is added at longer times, a large proportion of the cells challenged by MTX have apparently passed a point-of-no-return and are destined to die by oncosis.
A question that asks whether a woman has ever had a hysterectomy, along with solicitation of the woman's current age, indicates the prevalent proportion of women who have had a hysterectomy by a certain age.