Title |
Sleep as a biological problem: an overview of frontiers in sleep research
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Published in |
The Journal of Physiological Sciences, November 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s12576-015-0414-3 |
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Authors |
Takeshi Kanda, Natsuko Tsujino, Eriko Kuramoto, Yoshimasa Koyama, Etsuo A. Susaki, Sachiko Chikahisa, Hiromasa Funato |
Abstract |
Sleep is a physiological process not only for the rest of the body but also for several brain functions such as mood, memory, and consciousness. Nevertheless, the nature and functions of sleep remain largely unknown due to its extremely complicated nature and lack of optimized technology for the experiments. Here we review the recent progress in the biology of the mammalian sleep, which covers a wide range of research areas: the basic knowledge about sleep, the physiology of cerebral cortex in sleeping animals, the detailed morphological features of thalamocortical networks, the mechanisms underlying fluctuating activity of autonomic nervous systems during rapid eye movement sleep, the cutting-edge technology of tissue clearing for visualization of the whole brain, the ketogenesis-mediated homeostatic regulation of sleep, and the forward genetic approach for identification of novel genes involved in sleep. We hope this multifaceted review will be helpful for researchers who are interested in the biology of sleep. |
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