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Neurobiology: REM-Sleep-Promoting 'Goldilocks' Neurons
Gianina Ungurean1, Niels C Rattenborg2
1CRNL, SLEEP Team, UMR 5292 CNRS/U1028 INSERM, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69372, France; Avian Sleep Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Eberhard-Gwinner-Strasse 5, 82319 Seewiesen, Germany.
Current Biology : CB
|July 10, 2019
Abstract:
REM sleep is a paradoxical state accompanied by suspended thermoregulation that is preferentially expressed under optimal ambient temperatures. Komagata and colleagues now demonstrate that activity in hypothalamic melanin concentrating hormone neurons is essential for the temperature-dependent modulation of REM sleep.