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Developmental Patterns of Sleep Slow Wave Activity and Synaptic Density in Adolescent Mice
31 Mar 2014
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STUDY OBJECTIVE: In humans sleep slow wave activity (SWA) declines during adolescence. It has been suggested that this decline reflects the elimination of cortical synapses, but this hypothesis has never been tested directly. DESIGN: We focused on mouse frontal cortex and collected data from early adolescence (∼postnatal day 20, P20) to adulthood (P60) of (1) SWA; (2) expression of synapsin I, a presynaptic...
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