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Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss?
The nature of atonia in sleep continues to be enigmatic. This article discusses a new hypothesis for complete core muscle relaxation in REM sleep, suggesting a bottom-up recuperative perspective. That is, does the atonia in REM sleep provide a utility to help restore the mechanobiology and respectiv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19123938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1740-3391-7-1 |
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description | The nature of atonia in sleep continues to be enigmatic. This article discusses a new hypothesis for complete core muscle relaxation in REM sleep, suggesting a bottom-up recuperative perspective. That is, does the atonia in REM sleep provide a utility to help restore the mechanobiology and respective diurnal intervertebral disc hydraulic loss? By combining the effects of gravity with current compressive concepts in spinal stability, this article looks at vertebral approximation as a deleterious experience with an intrinsic biological need to keep vertebrae separated. Methods using polysomnography and recumbent MRI are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-26316032009-01-28 Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? Fryer, Jerome CJ J Circadian Rhythms Debate The nature of atonia in sleep continues to be enigmatic. This article discusses a new hypothesis for complete core muscle relaxation in REM sleep, suggesting a bottom-up recuperative perspective. That is, does the atonia in REM sleep provide a utility to help restore the mechanobiology and respective diurnal intervertebral disc hydraulic loss? By combining the effects of gravity with current compressive concepts in spinal stability, this article looks at vertebral approximation as a deleterious experience with an intrinsic biological need to keep vertebrae separated. Methods using polysomnography and recumbent MRI are discussed. BioMed Central 2009-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2631603/ /pubmed/19123938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1740-3391-7-1 Text en Copyright © 2009 Fryer; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Debate Fryer, Jerome CJ Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title | Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title_full | Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title_fullStr | Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title_short | Is a purpose of REM sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
title_sort | is a purpose of rem sleep atonia to help regenerate intervertebral disc volumetric loss? |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19123938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1740-3391-7-1 |
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