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

• Autores: Seana Lymer, Justin Blau
• Localización: Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, Vol. 165, Nº. 6, 2016, págs. 1310-1311
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.