Do Flies Count Sheep or NMDA Receptors to Go to Sleep?
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.
Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA.
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Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA; Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Program in Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Electronic address: justin.blau@nyu.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000378:metabolism; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000378:metabolism*; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; D012756:Sheep; D012890:Sleep
D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate