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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is emerging as a promising model system for the genetic dissection of sleep. As in mammals, sleep in the fruit fly is a reversible state of reduced responsiveness to the external world and has been defined using an array of behavioral, pharmacologic, molecular, and electrophysiologic criteria. A central feature of mammalian sleep is its homeostatic regulation by the amount of previous wakefulness. Dissecting the mechanisms of homeostatic regulation is likely to provide key insights into the functions of sleep. Thus, it is important to establish to what extent sleep homeostasis is similar between mammals and flies. This study was designed to determine whether in flies, as in mammals, (1) sleep rebound is dependent on prior time awake; (2) sleep deprivation affects the intensity, in addition to the duration, of sleep rebound; (3) sleep loss impairs vigilance and performance; (4) the sleep homeostatic response is conserved among different wild-type lines, and between female and male flies of the same line.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0161-8105
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
628-39
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Sleep homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53719, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.