Disruption of Circadian Rhythms in Synaptic Activity of the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei by African Trypanosomes and Cytokines

Disturbances in biological rhythms pose a major disease problem, not the least in the aging population. Experimental sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei brucei, in rats constitutes a unique and robust chronic model for studying mechanisms of such disturbances. The spontaneous postsynapti...

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Main Authors: G.B. Lundkvist, R.H. Hill, K. Kristensson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2002-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999610290536X