Activation of the Ventrolateral Preoptic Neurons Projecting to the Perifornical-Hypothalamic Area Promotes Sleep: DREADD Activation in Wild-Type Rats

The ventrolateral preoptic area (VLPO) predominantly contains sleep-active neurons and is involved in sleep regulation. The perifornical-hypothalamic area (PF-HA) is a wake-regulatory region and predominantly contains wake-active neurons. VLPO GABAergic/galaninergic neurons project to the PF-HA. Pre...

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Published in:	Cells
Main Authors:	Andrey Kostin, Md. Aftab Alam, Anton Saevskiy, Dennis McGinty, Md. Noor Alam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-07-01
Subjects:	sleep hypothalamus ventrolateral preoptic area designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs clozapine-N-oxide Fischer-344 rats
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/11/14/2140