Is Sleep Essential?

No current hypothesis can explain why animals need to sleep. Yet, sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and cannot be deprived without deleterious consequences. This suggests that searching for a core function of sleep, particularly at the cellular level, is still a worthwhile exercise.

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Autores principales: Cirelli, Chiara, Tononi, Giulio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18752355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060216
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spelling pubmed-25256902008-08-28 Is Sleep Essential? Cirelli, Chiara Tononi, Giulio PLoS Biol Essay No current hypothesis can explain why animals need to sleep. Yet, sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and cannot be deprived without deleterious consequences. This suggests that searching for a core function of sleep, particularly at the cellular level, is still a worthwhile exercise. Public Library of Science 2008-08 2008-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2525690/ /pubmed/18752355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060216 Text en © 2008 Cirelli and Tononi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18752355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060216
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