Sentences with phrase «hypocretin also»

We also found that a protein involved in modulating the sleep - wake cycle called orexin / hypocretin also influences Aβ levels in the brain.

Not exact matches

Here about 750 cells produce orexin (also known as hypocretin), a hormone that promotes wakefulness.

Think of brain cells as rooms with locks called receptors on their surfaces and a hypocretin as a key that is also a stimulant.

Relying on tests that used blood from Pandemrix recipients, the study authors showed it triggered antibodies that not only attack the virus but also bind to hypocretin receptors, potentially killing them.

Spinal fluid from living narcoleptics also has revealed an almost complete absence of hypocretin.

In line with the «molecular mimicry» idea, he also thought he had identified viral proteins that resembled hypocretin.

Orexins are also known as hypocretins.

Hypocretin neurons, about which I have also written before, up - regulate wakefulness and the stress response.

Because 1) Hypocretins simultaneously stimulate appetite and wakefulness, particularly through orexigenic output of the melanocortin system, and subsequent release of CRH, which activates the stress response, and 2) while Hypocretin Neurons wake us up, they also need to be quiet enough for people to go to sleep.

I have also personally experienced metabolic distress as a result of fasting, which is evidenced by my interest in hypocretin neurons.

Ghrelin, which originates in the gut and is known to stimulate appetite, also excites Hypocretin Neurons.

GABA neurons also create a bridge between Neuropeptite Y, which is the molecule that arguably has the strongest appetite - stimulating effect on the brain, and Hypocretin Neurons (more on Neuropeptide Y later this week).

This is coupled by ghrelin activity, which is also detected by Hypocretin Neurons.

Norepinephrine and orexin (also called hypocretin) keep some parts of the brain active while we are awake.