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The development of sleep/wake disruption and cataplexy as hypocretin/orexin neurons degenerate in male vs. female Orexin/tTA; TetO-DTA Mice.
Sleep - 12 Dec 2022
Sun Yu, Tisdale Ryan, Park Sunmee, Ma Shun-Chieh, Heu Jasmine, Haire Meghan, Allocca Giancarlo, Yamanaka Akihiro, Morairty Stephen R, Kilduff Thomas S
Abstract excerpt
Narcolepsy Type 1 (NT1), a sleep disorder with similar prevalence in both sexes, is thought to be due to loss of the hypocretin/orexin (Hcrt) neurons. Several transgenic strains have been created to model this disorder and are increasingly being used for preclinical drug development and basic science studies, yet most studies have solely used male mice. We compared the development of narcoleptic symptomatology in...
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