Sentences with phrase «lack hypocretin»

In the late 1990s, his team discovered that narcoleptics lack hypocretin, a hormone produced by a few brain cells that helps keep people and animals awake.

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Since the late 1990s, scientists have known narcoleptics lack neurons that produce neuropeptides called hypocretins, which regulate wakefulness.

Now a test of his spinal fluid showed a complete lack of the hormone hypocretin, which regulates wakefulness.

Stanford University researchers found that narcoleptics lack the cells that create hypocretin, due to the body's immune system killing them off (gee thanks).