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Neuroscience: A 'Skin Warming' Circuit that Promotes Sleep and Body Cooling
1Centre for Biological Timing and Cognition, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Current Biology : CB
|July 25, 2018
Abstract:
Skin and body warming help initiate sleep, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. New research in mice shows that skin warming recruits a previously unidentified hypothalamic circuit that functions to promote sleep and body cooling.