Open AccessDo Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?
Author(s) -
Seana Lymer,
Justin Blau
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.059
Subject(s) - biology , sleep (system call) , nmda receptor , neuroscience , drosophila (subgenus) , wakefulness , receptor , genetics , electroencephalography , gene , computer science , operating system
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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