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Sleeping to fuel the immune system: mammalian sleep and resistance to parasites

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Sleeping to fuel the immune system: mammalian sleep and resistance to parasites
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-9-8
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Authors

Mark R Opp

Abstract

Sleep is an enigma. Why animals forgo eating and reproducing, while potentially increasing their risk of predation remains unknown. Although some may question whether all animals sleep, it is clear that all living organisms possess defenses against attack by pathogens. Immune responses of humans and animals are impaired by sleep loss, and responses to immune challenge include altered sleep. Thus, sleep is hypothesized to be a component of the acute phase response to infection and to function in host defense. Examining phylogenetic relationships among sleep parameters, components of the mammalian immune system and resistance to infection may provide insight into the evolution of sleep and lead to a greater appreciation for the role of sleep in host defense.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 117 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 16%
Student > Master 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 7%
Other 23 19%
Unknown 25 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 12%
Psychology 7 6%
Environmental Science 5 4%
Neuroscience 5 4%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 40 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 January 2024.
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#1,892,494
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#456
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Outputs of similar age
#7,874
of 183,438 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#3
of 38 outputs
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