Insights from studying human sleep disorders
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Research guided by human sleep disorders leads to important basic sleep concepts, which reveals that sleep might not be a global, but rather a local, brain phenomenon and contrary to common assumptions, wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep are not mutually exclusive states. This striking realization explains a fascinating range of clinical phenomena on sleep disorders.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Mammalian cochlear supporting cells can divide and trans-differentiate into hair cells
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The capacity of prospectively identified post-mitotic, postnatal supporting cells purified from the postnatal mouse cochlea to proliferate and trans-differential into hair cells is demonstrated. The results indicate that postnatal mammalian supporting cells are potential targets for hair-cell regeneration by therapeutic manipulation in postnatal supporting cells.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Clues to the functions of mammalian sleep
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Theories suggest a role for non-rapid eye movement sleep in energy conservation and in nervous system recuperation. Across mammals, the amount and nature of sleep are correlated with age, body size and ecological variables, such as whether the animals live in a terrestrial or an aquatic environment, their diet and the safety of their sleeping site.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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