2005
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030143
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The Neural Substrates of Infant Sleep in Rats

Abstract: Sleep is a poorly understood behavior that predominates during infancy but is studied almost exclusively in adults. One perceived impediment to investigations of sleep early in ontogeny is the absence of state-dependent neocortical activity. Nonetheless, in infant rats, sleep is reliably characterized by the presence of tonic (i.e., muscle atonia) and phasic (i.e., myoclonic twitching) components; the neural circuitry underlying these components, however, is unknown. Recently, we described a medullary inhibito… Show more

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“…We have found, however, that nuchal muscle tone alone provides a reliable indicator of sleep and wakefulness in infants (5, 10, 11). Moreover, this single measure of state has been used in week-old rats to identify medullary and mesopontine regions involved in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness (12,13). Therefore, the sleep-wake durations and transitions reported here using nuchal EMG likely reflect the same neural activity within the brainstem that gives rise to sleep-wake cycles as defined by using electroencephalogram and EMG measures in adults.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…We have found, however, that nuchal muscle tone alone provides a reliable indicator of sleep and wakefulness in infants (5, 10, 11). Moreover, this single measure of state has been used in week-old rats to identify medullary and mesopontine regions involved in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness (12,13). Therefore, the sleep-wake durations and transitions reported here using nuchal EMG likely reflect the same neural activity within the brainstem that gives rise to sleep-wake cycles as defined by using electroencephalogram and EMG measures in adults.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Large groups of animals do not exhibit the differentiated EEG signals that are a prerequisite of an EEG based definition of sleep [10,11]. Unihemispheric sleep in the cetacean and avian phyla reveals that sleep can be achieved, in neural terms, locally [40].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These criteria are used to study sleep at early developmental ages before the onset of differentiated EEG [11] and in genetically tractable organisms such as fruit flies, zebra fish and even nematodes [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. (For discussion on whether electrographic and behaviorally defined sleep represent the same phenomena, please see: [10,19]).…”
Section: Typical Posturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This has suggested to some that a primal phasic activity of the central nervous system transforms postnatally over an extended time period into the very different brainstem-generated pattern seen in adults. But in this issue of PLoS Biology , Karlsson et al [21] show that this is not the case. In a set of technically demanding experiments, they demonstrate a remarkable similarity between sleep control mechanisms in the one-week-old rat and those in the adult cat, and by implication throughout the mammalian line.…”
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“…One can now imagine examining the metabolism and membrane characteristics of these critical cell groups as a means of gaining better insight into REM sleep function. However, as Karlsson et al's work demonstrates [21], most of the neurons of interest are not homogenously concentrated in any easily targeted region. Identifying the individual neurons of interest in vitro remains a challenge.…”
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