Sentences with phrase «narcoleptic people»
Mignot and his colleagues have begun population studies to see whether hypocretin receptor 2 mutations appear in narcoleptic people.
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«Many people would love to fall asleep the way narcoleptics do, at least temporarily,» Mignot says.
The discovery of an abnormal gene in narcoleptic pooches may soon lead to relief for millions of people who suffer from chronic insomnia.
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.
In their search for such a trigger in people who had become narcoleptic, Mignot's group found elevated levels of antibodies to Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium that causes strep throat and has been implicated in other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatic fever.