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How to keep the brain awake? The complex molecular pharmacogenetics of wake promotion.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology - 1 Jun 2009
Hasan Sibah, Pradervand Sylvain, Ahnaou Abdellah, Drinkenburg Wilhelmus, Tafti Mehdi, Franken Paul
Abstract excerpt
Wake-promoting drugs are widely used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness. The neuronal pathways involved in wake promotion are multiple and often not well characterized. We tested d-amphetamine, modafinil, and YKP10A, a novel wake-promoting compound, in three inbred strains of mice. The wake duration induced by YKP10A and d-amphetamine depended similarly on genotype, whereas opposite strain differences were...
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