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Sleep: not such a waste

Nature Reviews Neuroscience volume 14, pages 816–817 (2013)Cite this article

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The authors used two-photon imaging to follow the path of fluorescent tracers that were infused into the CSF through a cannula in the cisterna magna (a cistern that receives CSF from the fourth ventricle) and monitored the flow of the tracers in awake, sleeping and anaesthetized mice. In all experiments, the brain state of the mice was confirmed using electrocorticography and electromyography. In sleeping mice and anaesthetized mice, the tracers flowed along periarterial and periparenchymal spaces into the parenchyma, but this tracer influx was reduced by more than 90% in awake mice.

clearance was twice as fast during sleep and anaesthesia than during waking

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  1. Xie, L. et al. Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain. Science 342, 373–377 (2013)

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Welberg, L. Sleep: not such a waste. Nat Rev Neurosci 14, 816–817 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3632

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