Hypocretin/orexin overexpression induces an insomnia-like phenotype in zebrafish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 13400-13410

  Prober, David A ^a   Rihel, Jason ^a   Onah, Anthony A ^a   Sung, Rou Jia ^a   Schier, Alexander F ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Hypocretin; Insomnia; Orexin; Sleep; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

OREXIN;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; INSOMNIA; LOCOMOTION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMOREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 33845728490     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4332-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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