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Neuronal machinery of sleep homeostasis in Drosophila.
Neuron - 19 Feb 2014
Donlea Jeffrey M, Pimentel Diogo, Miesenböck Gero
Abstract excerpt
Sleep is under homeostatic control, but the mechanisms that sense sleep need and correct sleep deficits remain unknown. Here, we report that sleep-promoting neurons with projections to the dorsal fan-shaped body (FB) form the output arm of Drosophila's sleep homeostat. Homeostatic sleep control requires the Rho-GTPase-activating protein encoded by the crossveinless-c (cv-c) gene in order to transduce sleep...
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