[Hypocretins/orexins and narcolepsy: from molecules to disease].

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In order to foresee a curative treatment for narcolepsy, it is crucial to determine whether or not human narcolepsy is a neurodegenerative disorder, as we suggested, and to understand the mechanisms involved. The current hypothesis regarding the etiology of human narcolepsy is that it is an autoimmune disorder, because of its strong association with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA DQB1*0602), with the Hcrt...

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