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Las neuronas MCH activas en el sueño REM están involucradas en el olvido de los recuerdos dependientes del hipocampo

Shuntaro Izawa1,2,3,4, Srikanta Chowdhury1,2,3, Toh Miyazaki1,2,3,4

  • 1Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 12, 2019
PubMed
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Las neuronas hormonales que concentran la melanina promueven activamente el olvido durante el sueño REM. La inhibición de estas neuronas hipotalámicas mejora la memoria sin interrumpir la calidad del sueño, revelando un mecanismo clave de olvido.

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