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Dopamine is a regulator of arousal in the fruit fly.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 10 Aug 2005
Kume Kazuhiko, Kume Shoen, Park Sang Ki, Hirsh Jay, Jackson F Rob
Abstract excerpt
Sleep and arousal are known to be regulated by both homeostatic and circadian processes, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not well understood. It has been reported that the Drosophila rest/activity cycle has features in common with the mammalian sleep/wake cycle, and it is expected that use of the fly genetic model will facilitate a molecular understanding of sleep and arousal. Here, we report the...
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