What is REM sleep?

MS Blumberg, JA Lesku, PA Libourel, MH Schmidt… - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
For many decades, sleep researchers have sought to determine which species 'have'rapid
eye movement (REM) sleep. In doing so, they relied predominantly on a template derived …

Nuclear actin filaments in DNA repair dynamics

CP Caridi, M Plessner, R Grosse, I Chiolo - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Recent development of innovative tools for live imaging of actin filaments (F-actin) enabled
the detection of surprising nuclear structures responding to various stimuli, challenging …

Hyperexcitable arousal circuits drive sleep instability during aging

SB Li, VM Damonte, C Chen, GX Wang, JM Kebschull… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Sleep quality declines with age; however, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. We
found that hyperexcitable hypocretin/orexin (Hcrt/OX) neurons drive sleep fragmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep loss can cause death through accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the gut

A Vaccaro, YK Dor, K Nambara, EA Pollina, C Lin… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The view that sleep is essential for survival is supported by the ubiquity of this behavior, the
apparent existence of sleep-like states in the earliest animals, and the fact that severe sleep …

A neuron–glia lipid metabolic cycle couples daily sleep to mitochondrial homeostasis

PR Haynes, ES Pyfrom, Y Li, C Stein… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep is thought to be restorative to brain energy homeostasis, but it is not clear how this is
achieved. We show here that Drosophila glia exhibit a daily cycle of glial mitochondrial …

Parp1 promotes sleep, which enhances DNA repair in neurons

D Zada, Y Sela, N Matosevich, A Monsonego… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The characteristics of the sleep drivers and the mechanisms through which sleep relieves
the cellular homeostatic pressure are unclear. In flies, zebrafish, mice, and humans, DNA …

[图书][B] A fábrica de cretinos digitais: Os perigos das telas para nossas crianças (leia também Faça-os ler!)

M Desmurget - 2021 - books.google.com
Por que os grandes gurus do Vale do Silício proíbem seus filhos de usar telas? Você sabia
que nunca na história da humanidade houve um declínio tão acentuado nas habilidades …

A signalling pathway for transcriptional regulation of sleep amount in mice

R Zhou, G Wang, Q Li, F Meng, C Liu, R Gan, D Ju… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In mice and humans, sleep quantity is governed by genetic factors and exhibits age-
dependent variation,–. However, the core molecular pathways and effector mechanisms that …

Genotoxic effect of microplastics and COVID-19: The hidden threat

G Tagorti, B Kaya - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous anthropogenic contaminants, and their abundance in the
entire ecosystem raises the question of how far is the impact of these MPs on the biota …

The evolution and diversification of sleep

NC Rattenborg, G Ungurean - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The evolutionary origins of sleep and its sub-states, rapid eye movement (REM) and non-
REM (NREM) sleep, found in mammals and birds, remain a mystery. Although the discovery …