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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
The hypocretin/orexin ligand-receptor system has recently been implicated in the sleep disorder narcolepsy. During the dark (active) period, null mutants of the prepro-orexin (prepro-hypocretin) gene have cataplectic attacks and increased levels of both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. Intracerebroventricular injection of one of the encoded neuropeptides, orexin-A, early in the light period increases wakefulness and reduces REM sleep in the rat, suggesting that this system may be involved in the normal regulation of sleep and wakefulness. To further test this hypothesis, we measured hypocretin (hcrt) mRNA levels by both Northern hybridization and Taqman analysis in mouse and rat hypothalamus after short-term (6 h) sleep deprivation (SD) and 2-4 hours after recovery from SD. Although our SD procedures effectively induced a sleep debt and increased c-fos mRNA expression in the cortex and hypothalamus as described by other investigators, we found that hcrt mRNA levels were not significantly changed in either species either after SD or after recovery from SD. If the hcrt system is involved in normal regulation of sleep and wakefulness, longer periods of SD may be necessary to affect hcrt mRNA levels or changes may occur at the protein rather than mRNA level. Alternatively, this system may also be involved in another function that counterbalances any SD-induced changes in hcrt mRNA levels.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0161-8105
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
867-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Electrodes, Implanted, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Electroencephalography, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Electromyography, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Hypothalamus, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Neuropeptides, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Protein Precursors, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Sleep, REM, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Sleep Deprivation, pubmed-meshheading:11083595-Wakefulness
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Prepro-hypocretin (prepro-orexin) expression is unaffected by short-term sleep deprivation in rats and mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.