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Effects of D-amino acids on sleep in Drosophila.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 22 Jan 2022
Nakagawa Hiroyuki, Nakane Shin, Ban Gosuke, Tomita Jun, Kume Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Sleep and metabolism are closely related and nutritional elements such as sugars and amino acids are known to regulate sleep differently. Here we comprehensively investigated the effects of D-amino acids fed in the diet on the sleep of Drosophila melanogaster. Among 19 amino acids examined, both D-serine (Ser) and D-glutamine (Gln) induced a significant increase in sleep amount and the effect of D-Ser was the...
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