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. 2016 Jun 2;165(6):1310-1311.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.059.

Do Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?

Seana Lymer  1 , Justin Blau  2
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Do Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?

Seana Lymer et al. Cell. .
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The drive to sleep increases the longer that we stay awake, but this process is poorly understood at the cellular level. Now, Liu et al. show that the plasticity of a small group of neurons in the Drosophila central brain is a key component of the sleep homeostat.

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