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A HAT for sleep?: epigenetic regulation of sleep by Tip60 in Drosophila.
Fly - 1 Jan 2000
Pirooznia Sheila K, Elefant Felice
Abstract excerpt
Sleep disturbances are common in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease (AD). Unfortunately, how AD is mechanistically linked with interference of the body's natural sleep rhythms remains unclear. Our recent findings provide insight into this question by demonstrating that sleep disruption associated with AD is driven by epigenetic changes mediated by the histone acetyltransferase (HAT) Tip60. In...
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