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Hypocretin/orexin overexpression induces an insomnia-like phenotype in zebrafish.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 20 Dec 2006
Prober David A, Rihel Jason, Onah Anthony A, Sung Rou-Jia, Schier Alexander F
Abstract excerpt
As many as 10% of humans suffer chronic sleep disturbances, yet the genetic mechanisms that regulate sleep remain essentially unknown. It is therefore crucial to develop simple and cost-effective vertebrate models to study the genetic regulation of sleep. The best characterized mammalian sleep/wa...
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