Was Cajal right about sleep?
Matthew C F Tso and Erik D. Herzog*
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author: Erik D Herzog herzog@wustl.edu
Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis,
St. Louis 63130, MO, USA
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BMC Biology 2015, 13:67 doi:10.1186/s12915-015-0178-5
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25 August 2015
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Cajal’s careful observations of the anatomy of the nervous
system led him to some lesser-known predictions about the function of glia as
mediators of sleep. Reporting over 120 years later in BMC Biology,
Bellesi et al. examine changes in gene expression and morphology of astrocytes
with sleep. Their results provide support for and revisions to Cajal’s
predictions.
See research article: doi: 10.1186/s12915-015-0176-7.
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