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The sleep-feeding conflict: Understanding behavioral integration through genetic analysis in Drosophila.
Aging - 1 Aug 2010
McDonald Daniel M, Keene Alex C
Abstract excerpt
One of the brain's most important functions is the control of homeostatically regulated behaviors. Dysregulation of the neural systems controlling sleep and feeding underlies many chronic illnesses. In a recent study published in Current Biology we showed that flies, like mammals, suppress sleep when starved and identified the genes Clock and cycle as regulators of sleep during starvation. Here we show that...
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