Sleep: Helicon Cells Charge the Circuit. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A new study in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has identified a neural circuitry that connects regions that control sleep with those that encode sleep pressure. These novel cells, termed helicon cells for their unique morphology, are modulated by sleep control centers and integrate sensory information, providing a novel mechanism for gating of sleep.

published proceedings

  • Curr Biol

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Yurgel, M. E., & Keene, A. C.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Yurgel, Maria E||Keene, Alex C

publication date

  • April 2018