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Noradrenergic locus coeruleus activity functionally partitions NREM sleep to gatekeep the NREM-REM sleep cycle
Alejandro Osorio-Forero, Georgios Foustoukos, Romain Cardis…·Anita Lüthi
This study shows that LC activity partitions NREM sleep into brain and autonomic states that regulate the NREM-REM cycle, with high activity enabling microarousals and low activity required for REMS entries.
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