Project description:Animals deficient for the alpha subunit of the large conductance calcium dependent potassium channel (BK) were sleep deprived for 4 hours and compared to wildtype littermates as well as animals (wildtype littermate and BK deficient) left undisturbed for the same time.
Project description:Animals deficient for the alpha subunit of the large conductance calcium dependent potassium channel (BK) were sleep deprived for 4 hours and compared to wildtype littermates as well as animals (wildtype littermate and BK deficient) left undisturbed for the same time.
Project description:Purpose: To determine the specific effects of 6 hours sleep deprivation after a learning event on the transcriptomes of microglia. Sleep deprivation can generate inflammatory responses in the neuronal environment. In turn, this inflammation increases sleep drive, leading to a rebound in sleep duration. Microglia, a type of support cell found exclusively in the brain, have previously been found to release of inflammatory signals and exhibit altered characteristics in response to sleep deprivation. Together, this suggests microglia may be partially responsible for the brain’s response to sleep deprivation through their inflammatory activity. In this study, we fully and selectively ablated microglia from the mouse brain and assessed resulting sleep, circadian, and sleep deprivation phenotypes. We find microglia are dispensable for both homeostatic sleep and circadian function and the sleep rebound response to sleep deprivation. However, we uncover a phenomenon by which microglia appear to be essential for the protection of synapses and associated memories formed during a period of sleep deprivation, further expanding the list of known functions for microglia in synaptic modulation.
Project description:Purpose: To comprehensively identify the gene expression changes that occur after acute sleep deprivation. Method: We performed total RNA sequencing after 5hours of sleep deprivation. Results: Using total RNA-sequencing, we show that acute sleep deprivation causes dramatic gene expression changes in the mouse hippocampus. Conclusion: This study provides insight into the biological impact of acute sleep deprivation.
Project description:Analysis of the effects of sleep deprivation, recovery sleep, and three time-of-day controls on seven brain regions laser microdissected from mouse brain. The regions include the locus coeruleus, suprachiasmatic nucleus, hypocretin area, tuberomammillary nucleus, orbital cortex, posteromedial cortical amygdala, and entorhinal cortex. In this study, 7 brain regions were collected by laser microdissection from brain tissue of mice from 5 different treatment groups and used for microarray experiments. Four biological replicates were generated for each regionxcondition. Conditions are: SD, sleep deprivation for 6 hours from ZT0 - 6; SDC, time-of-day control for SD at ZT6; RS, recovery sleep for 4 hours following SD; RSC, time-of-day control for RS at ZT10; W, spontaneous waking at ZT18.
Project description:To assess the effect of sleep deprivation on glucose metabolism and elucidate the mechanism, we established the mouse model wth C57BL/6J that is useful for the intervention on sleep deprivation associated diabetes and evaluate the liver metabolism and gene expression. Single six hours sleep deprivation induced increased hepatic glucose production assessed by pyruvate tolerance test and the hepatic triglyceride content was significantly higher in the sleep deprivation group than freely sleeping control group. Liver metabolites such as ketone bodies were increased in sleep deprivation group. Some gene expressions which associated with lipogenesis were increased.
Project description:We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying the effect of sleep deprivation in the mouse hippocampus and identified distinct classes of regulated genes during this process. Hippocampal tissue was taken from sleep deprived mice and time-matched non-sleep-deprived control animals that were left undisturbed in their home cages during the sleep deprivation period for a total of 8 and 9 replicates per group. RNA was isolated and cDNA was synthesized from hippocampal tissue, and the sample from each animal was hybridized to a separate Affymetrix Mouse 430_2 microarray
Project description:Sleep is deeply involved in neuroimmune regulation, while the mechanism is yet to be elucidated. Experimental manipulation of sleep duration provides a reliable measure for evaluating how sleep regulates innate immunity. Here we report a modified sleep deprivation paradigm (SD) that can constantly awaken the mice with more than 95% efficiency, and investigate the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation on mice's immune systems.