Vasopressin neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus promote wakefulness via lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Md Tarikul Islam; Florian Rumpf; Yusuke Tsuno; Shota Kodani; Takeshi Sakurai; Ayako Matsui; Takashi Maejima; Michihiro Mieda
- Source
- Current Biology. 32:3871-3885.e4
- Subject
- Arginine Vasopressin
Neurons
Orexins
Orexin Receptors
Vasopressins
Hypothalamic Area, Lateral
Receptors, Melanocortin
Hypothalamus
Wakefulness
Sleep
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus
- Language
- ISSN
- 0960-9822
The sleep-wakefulness cycle is regulated by complicated neural networks that include many different populations of neurons throughout the brain. Arginine vasopressin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH