Sleep: Labelling sleep generators
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 387 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.77
Author: Darran Yates
The preoptic area (POA) of the hypothalamus is implicated in sleep generation, but deciphering exactly which POA neurons promote sleep has been difficult. The POA sends inhibitory projections to the wakefulness-promoting tuberomammillary nucleus (TMN). Through the use of virus-mediated retrograde tracing and optogenetics, Chung et
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