Extended Wakefulness: Compromised Metabolics in and Degeneration of Locus Ceruleus Neurons
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Extended wakefulness: compromised metabolics in and degeneration of locus ceruleus neurons.
Modern society enables a shortening of sleep times, yet long-term consequences of extended wakefulness on the brain are largely unknown. Essential for optimal alertness, locus ceruleus neurons (LCns) are metabolically active neurons that fire at increased rates across sustained wakefulness. We hypothesized that wakefulness is a metabolic stressor to LCns and that, with extended wakefulness, ada...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5025-12.2014