Sleep: DNA Repair Function for Better Neuronal Aging?
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Genetic Studies of Human DNA Repair Proteins Using Yeast as a Model System
Published on: March 18, 2010
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Philippe Mourrain1, Gordon X Wang2
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; INSERM 1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, 75005, France.
Current Biology : CB
|June 19, 2019
Abstract:
A novel potential role of sleep is neuronal DNA repair. Live imaging of chromosome dynamics in zebrafish neurons has uncovered how sleep can repair DNA breaks accumulated during wake to maintain genome integrity and likely slow down neuronal aging.
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