In the brain there is a molecule that is responsible for waste disposal system, this molecule was discovered last year and its activity increases when having a deep sleep. This reason underscore the importance of sleep which has been recommended not to be less than 6 hours daily.
Asides from the waste disposal increase during slumbering, sleep could also inspire the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases linked with protein build-up in the brain.
"If this waste-disposal system is under the body's intrinsic regulation, there could be a pharmacological way to turn the system up or down," says Jeffrey Iliff at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, one of the study authors. "Perhaps this is a biological pathway that could be co-opted to rescue us from or improve neurological degeneration."In the brain there is a molecule that is responsible for waste disposal system, this molecule was discovered last year and its activity increases when having a deep sleep. This reason underscore the importance of sleep which has been recommended not to be less than 6 hours daily.
Asides from the waste disposal increase during slumbering, sleep could also inspire the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases linked with protein build-up in the brain.
"If this waste-disposal system is under the body's intrinsic regulation, there could be a pharmacological way to turn the system up or down," says Jeffrey Iliff at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, one of the study authors. "Perhaps this is a biological pathway that could be co-opted to rescue us from or improve neurological degeneration."
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