What Induces Sleep? For Fruit Flies It's Stress at the Cellular Level (IMAGE)

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What Induces Sleep? For Fruit Flies It's Stress at the Cellular Level

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The cogwheels represent the mitochondria that allow the cell the measure 'waking time'. Around the clock is the recorded electrical activity of sleep-promoting cells with a wake to sleep (electrical silence to electrical activity) transition.

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Illustration courtesy of Anissa Kempf.

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