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Hypocretin receptor expression in canine and murine narcolepsy models and in hypocretin-ligand deficient human narcolepsy.
Sleep - 1 Aug 2008
Mishima Kazuo, Fujiki Nobuhiro, Yoshida Yasushi, Sakurai Takeshi, Honda Makoto, Mignot Emmanuel, Nishino Seiji
Abstract excerpt
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hypocretin receptor gene (hcrtR1 and hcrtR2) expression is affected after long-term hypocretin ligand loss in humans and animal models of narcolepsy. DESIGN: Animal and human study. We measured hcrtR1 and hcrtR2 expression in the frontal cortex and pons using the RT-PCR method in murine models (8-week-old and 27-week-old orexin/ataxin-3 transgenic (TG) hypocretin cell ablated...
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