New role of adenosine in the regulation of REM sleep discovered
Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
The regulation and function of sleep is one of the biggest black boxes of today's brain science. A new paper finds that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is suppressed by adenosine acting on a specific subtype of adenosine receptors, the A2A receptors, in the olfactory bulb.