A role for the preoptic sleep-promoting system in absence epilepsy

Absence epilepsy (AE) in humans and the genetic AE model in WAG/Rij rats are both associated with abnormalities in sleep architecture that suggest insufficiency of the sleep-promoting mechanisms. In this study we compared the functionality of sleep-active neuronal groups within two well-established...

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Main Authors: N. Suntsova, S. Kumar, R. Guzman-Marin, M.N. Alam, R. Szymusiak, D. McGinty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996109001740

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