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Narcolepsy and Orexins: An Example of Progress in Sleep Research
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurodegenerative disease caused by a deficiency of orexin-producing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus. It is clinically characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and by intrusions into wakefulness of physiological aspects of rapid eye movement sleep such as cataplexy,...
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Frontiers Research Foundation
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541306 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2011.00026 |