ABSTRACT: Healthy young males (n=13) attended in this controlled laboratory experiment stimulating a workin week with reduced sleep. After baseline, the experimental group (n=9) were partially sleep deprived for 5 nights (time in bed 4 h/night) and had a recovery period of two nights (8 h/night). The control group (n= 4) spent the time in the same laboratory conditions but sleeping normally (8 h/night). RNA expression was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) taken in the morning after baseline (BL), sleep restriction (SR), and recovery (REC) periods.
Project description:Insomnia is an economic burden and public health problem. This study aimed to explore potential biological pathways and protein networks for insomnia characterized by wakefulness after sleep. Proteomics analysis was performed in the insomnia group with wakefulness and the control group. The differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were enriched, then hub proteins were identified by protein-protein interaction (PPI) network and verified by parallel reaction monitoring (PRM). Compared with the control group, the sleep time and efficiency of insomnia patients were decreased, awakening time and numbers after sleep onset were significantly increased (P < 0.001). The results of proteomic sequencing found 68 DEPs in serum under 1.2-fold changed standard. These DEPs were significantly enriched in humoral immune response, complement and coagulation cascades, cholesterol metabolism. Through PPI network, we identified 10 proteins with the highest connectivity as hub proteins. Among them, differential expression of 9 proteins was verified by PRM.We identified the hub proteins and molecular mechanisms of insomnia patients characterized by wakefulness after sleep. It provided potential molecular targets for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of these patients, and indicated the immune and metabolic systems may be closely related to insomnia characterized by wakefulness after sleep.
Project description:Insomnia is an economic burden and public health problem. This study aimed to explore potential biological pathways and protein networks for insomnia characterized by wakefulness after sleep. Proteomics analysis was performed in the insomnia group with wakefulness and the control group. The differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were enriched, then hub proteins were identified by protein-protein interaction (PPI) network and verified by parallel reaction monitoring (PRM). Compared with the control group, the sleep time and efficiency of insomnia patients were decreased, awakening time and numbers after sleep onset were significantly increased (P < 0.001).
Project description:We investigated the genomic and physiological impact of acute sleep loss in peripheral tissues, by obtaining adipose tissue and skeletal muscle after one night of sleep loss and after one full night of sleep. Processed data (count table) only. Raw data will be submitted to EGA.
Project description:Despite an established link between sleep deprivation and epigenetic processes in humans, it remains unclear to what extent sleep deprivation modulates DNA methylation. We performed a within subject randomized blinded study with 16 healthy subjects to examine the effect of one night of total acute sleep deprivation (TSD) on the genome wide methylation profile in blood compared to normal sleep. Genome-wide differences in methylation between both conditions were assessed by applying a paired regression model that corrected for monocyte subpopulations (neutrophil/leukocyte ratio). Additionally, the correlations between the methylation of genes detected to be modulated by TSD and gene expression were examined in a separate, publicly available cohort of ten healthy male donors (E-GEOD-49065). Sleep deprivation significantly affected the DNA methylation profile both independently and in dependency of shifts in monocyte composition. Our study detected differential methylation of 269 probes. Notably, one CpG site was located 69bp upstream of ING5, which has been shown to be differentially expressed following sleep deprivation. Gene set enrichment analysis detected the Notch and Wnt signaling pathways to be enriched among the differentially methylated genes. These results provide evidence that total acute sleep deprivation alters the methylation profile in healthy human subjects. This is, to our knowledge, the first study that systematically investigated the impact of total acute sleep deprivation on genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in blood and related the epigenomic findings to the expression data.
Project description:We investigated the genomic and physiological impact of acute sleep loss in peripheral tissues, by obtaining adipose tissue and skeletal muscle after one night of sleep loss and after one full night of sleep. Processed data (M-values for probes not overlapping SNPs) only. Raw data will be submitted to EGA.
Project description:Timed sleep restriction designed to mimic human shift work was performed over a 2 week period in mice. On the final day, tissues were collected at 6 hour intervals to exmaine the effects of sleep restriction on circadian gene expression. 3 mice were used at each time point, for both controls and sleep restricted groups.
Project description:To explore the role of microglial TNFα in the control of sleep through phosphorylation. Specifically, to examine the involvement of microglial TNFα in the control of brain phosphorylation along the sleep-wake cycle and in the phosphorylation-based coding of sleep need.
Project description:GABAergic transmission controls cortical sleep, however the molecular determinants of GABAergic control of this phenomenon are unknown. We used immunoprecipitation of the inhibitory postsynaptic protein gephyrin to identify gephyrin interactors at ZT6 (sleep) and ZT6 with sleep deprivation (ZT6SD).
Project description:The aim of this study was to discover significantly changed proteins in human blood serum as a result of 6 h sleep loss at night. Eight females were reqruited. . Peripheral venous whole blood sampling was performed at 04:00, after 6 h of sleep and after 6 h of sleep deprivation (SD). Serum from each subject was depleted before protein digestion by trypsin and iTRAQ labeling. Labled peptides were analyzed by mass spectrometry.
Project description:These studies address temporal changes in gene expression during spontaneous sleep and extended wakefulness in the mouse cerebral cortex, a neuronal target for processes that control sleep; and the hypothalamus, an important site of sleep regulatory processes. We determined these changes by comparing expression in sleeping animals sacrificed at different times during the lights on period, to that in animals sleep deprived and sacrificed at the same diurnal time. Experiment Overall Design: Experiments were performed on male mice (C57/BL6), 10 weeks of age ±1 week. Animals were housed in a light/dark cycle of 12 hrs, in a pathogen free, temperature- and humidity-controlled room (22°C and 45-55%, respectively) with water available ad libitum. Food was accessible for 12 hrs only during the active period. Animals were subjected to 14 days of acclimatization during which a nighttime feeding pattern was established. This was done to avoid differential food intake between mice that were subsequently sleep deprived during the lights on period and those allowed to sleep. Mice were sacrificed following 3, 6, 9 and 12 hrs of total sleep deprivation (n=5 at each time point). Deprivation was initiated at lights-on, and performed through gentle handling. Sleeping animals, which were left undisturbed, were sacrificed at the same diurnal time points as sleep deprived mice (n=5 at each time point). An additional control group of mice were sacrificed at time zero, i.e., at the time of lights-on (n=5). All mice were behaviorally monitored using the AccuScan infrared monitoring system that detects movement when the mouse crosses electronic beams (Columbus Instruments). Mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation. Brain sectioning was performed according to the mouse brain atlas of Franklin and Paxinos . The primary and secondary motor areas (M1 and M2) of the cerebral cortex and broadly defined regions and zones of the hypothalamus were sampled. RNA was isolated with Trizol (Invitrogen) and further purified using RNeasy columns (Qiagen) as per the manufacturer's instructions.