Do Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?
- PMID: 27259141
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.059
Do Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?
Abstract
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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Sleep Drive Is Encoded by Neural Plastic Changes in a Dedicated Circuit.Cell. 2016 Jun 2;165(6):1347-1360. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.013. Epub 2016 May 19. Cell. 2016. PMID: 27212237 Free PMC article.
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