Hypocretin/orexin: Maintenance of wakefulness and a multiplicity of other roles

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 227-230

  Kilduff, Thomas S ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OREXIN;

BREATHING; CATAPLEXY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 22144499245     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2005.04.002     Document Type: Editorial

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