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- Yanagisawa Masashi
- WPI-IIIS, Univ. Tsukuba
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 睡眠覚醒の謎に挑む
Abstract
<p>Despite the fact that the executive neurocircuitry and neurochemistry for sleep/wake switching has been increasingly revealed in recent years, the mechanism for homeostatic regulation of sleep, as well as the neural substrate for "sleepiness" (sleep need), remains unknown. To crack open this black box, we have initiated a large-scale forward genetic screen of sleep/wake phenotype in mice based on true somnographic (EEG/EMG) measurements. We have so far screened >8,000 heterozygous ENU-mutagenized founders and established a number of pedigrees exhibiting heritable and specific sleep/wake abnormalities. By combining linkage analysis and the next-generation whole exome sequencing, we have molecularly identified and verified the causal mutation in several of these pedigrees. Biochemical and neurophysiological analyses of these mutations are underway. Since these dominant mutations cause strong phenotypic traits, we expect that the mutated genes will provide new insights into the elusive pathway regulating sleep/wakefulness. Indeed, through a systematic cross-comparison of the Sleepy mutants and sleep-deprived mice, we have recently found that the cumulative phosphorylation state of a specific set of mostly synaptic proteins may be the molecular substrate of sleep need.</p>
Journal
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- Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
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Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society 93 (0), 1-SL01-, 2020
Japanese Pharmacological Society
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390565134835958784
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- NII Article ID
- 130007811381
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- ISSN
- 24354953
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed