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A Drosophila circuit feels the (sleep) pressure.
Neuron - 19 Feb 2014
Ozcan Güliz Gürel, Rihel Jason
Abstract excerpt
How sleep is homeostatically regulated remains a mystery. In this issue of Neuron, Donlea et al. (2014) provide evidence in Drosophila that a set of sleep-inducing neurons require Crossveinless-c, a specific Rho-GTPase-activating protein (Rho-Gap), to alter their membrane excitability in response to sleep deprivation.
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