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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 556, Issue 3, Pages 935-946Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.056622
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL60296, P50 HL060296] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH47480, MH63323, R01 MH047480, R01 MH063323] Funding Source: Medline
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Neurones in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPN) and the ventrolateral preoptic area (vlPOA) express immunoreactivity for c-Fos protein following sustained sleep, and display elevated discharge rates during both non-REM and REM sleep compared to waking. We evaluated the hypothesis that MnPN and vlPOA sleep-active neurones are GABAergic by combining staining for c-Fos protein with staining for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD). In a group of six rats exhibiting spontaneous total sleep times averaging 82.2 +/- 5.1% of the 2 h immediately prior to death, >75% of MnPN neurones that were Fos-immunoreactive (IR) were also GAD-IR. Similar results were obtained in the vlPOA. In a group of 11 rats exhibiting spontaneous sleep times ranging from 20 to 92%, the number of Fos + GAD-IR neurones in MnPN and vlPOA was positively correlated with total sleep time. Compared to control animals, Fos + GAD-IR cell counts in the MnPN were significantly elevated in rats that were sleep deprived for 24 h and permitted 2 h of recovery sleep. These findings demonstrate that a majority of MnPN and vlPOA neurones that express Fos-IR during sustained spontaneous sleep are GABAergic. They also demonstrate that sleep deprivation is associated with increased activation of GABAergic neurones in the MnPN and vlPOA.
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