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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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Autor principal: Fryer, Jerome CJ
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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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.
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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?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19123938
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