Do flies count sheep or NMDA receptors to go to sleep?

Seana Lymer; Justin Blau

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.059

Do flies count sheep or NMDA receptors to go to sleep?

Seana Lymer, Justin Blau

Biology and Genomics

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Abstract

The drive to sleep increases the longer that we stay awake, but this process is poorly understood at the cellular level. Now, Liu et al. show that the plasticity of a small group of neurons in the Drosophila central brain is a key component of the sleep homeostat.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1310-1311
Number of pages	2
Journal	Cell
Volume	165
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.059
State	Published - Jun 2 2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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