Search Results - "Imeri, Luca"
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How (and why) the immune system makes us sleep
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-03-2009)“…Key Points Serotonin promotes wakefulness but is necessary for sleep. Cytokines, such as interleukin 1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor, are involved in…”
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Doxycycline rescues recognition memory and circadian motor rhythmicity but does not prevent terminal disease in fatal familial insomnia mice
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-10-2021)“…Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a dominantly inherited prion disease linked to the D178N mutation in the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP). Symptoms,…”
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Transgenic fatal familial insomnia mice indicate prion infectivity-independent mechanisms of pathogenesis and phenotypic expression of disease
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-04-2015)“…Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and a genetic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD178) are clinically different prion disorders linked to the D178N prion…”
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Humoral response to anti SARS-CoV2 vaccination at one and seven months is not different in shift workers and non-shift workers
Published in Brain, behavior, & immunity. Health (01-11-2024)“…Since previous studies, mostly performed in healthy adults, show that sleep restriction around time of vaccination impairs antibody response and shift work…”
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Mutant Prion Protein Expression Causes Motor and Memory Deficits and Abnormal Sleep Patterns in a Transgenic Mouse Model
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (26-11-2008)“…A familial form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is linked to the D178N/V129 prion protein (PrP) mutation. Tg(CJD) mice expressing the mouse homolog of this…”
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Thermoregulation as a non-unified system: A difficult to teach concept
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Febrile and sleep responses to an immune challenge are affected by trait aggressiveness in rats
Published in Brain, behavior, and immunity (01-08-2019)“…•In high aggressive rats, an immune challenge induces a 24-h long fever.•In high aggressive rats, an immune challenge significantly increases NREM sleep…”
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Sleep inhibition induced by amyloid‐β oligomers is mediated by the cellular prion protein
Published in Journal of sleep research (01-06-2021)“…Sleep is severely impaired in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid‐β deposition in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients is a key event in its…”
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A Tribute to Mauro Mancia—1929 – 2007
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-11-2007)Get full text
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Sleep as a behavioral model of neuro-immune interactions
Published in Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis (01-01-1999)“…The central nervous system, by a variety of mechanisms engages in constant surveillance of the peripheral immune system. Alterations in the status of the…”
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Optimization of the High Order Correctors for HL-LHC Toward the Series Production
Published in IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity (01-08-2021)“…INFN is developing at the LASA lab (Milano, Italy) the High Order (HO) corrector magnets for the High Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC) project, which will equip the…”
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Transgenic mice recapitulate the phenotypic heterogeneity of genetic prion diseases without developing prion infectivity: Role of intracellular PrP retention in neurotoxicity
Published in Prion (03-03-2016)“…Genetic prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders caused by mutations in the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP). Different PrP mutations cause…”
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Muscarinic receptor subtypes in the medial preoptic area and sleep-wake cycles
Published in Neuroreport (31-01-1996)“…To clarify which muscarinic receptor subtype(s) mediate changes in sleep and cortical temperature (Tcort) induced by carbachol microinjections into the medial…”
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Interleukin-1 Inhibits Putative Cholinergic Neurons in Vitro and REM Sleep when Microinjected into the Rat Laterodorsal Tegmental Nucleus
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2010)“…REM sleep is suppressed during infection, an effect mimicked by the administration of cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1). In spite of this observation,…”
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Inhibition of caspase-1 in rat brain reduces spontaneous nonrapid eye movement sleep and nonrapid eye movement sleep enhancement induced by lipopolysaccharide
Published in American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (01-07-2006)“…Evidence suggests that IL-1beta is involved in promoting physiological nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. IL-1beta has also been proposed to mediate NREM…”
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Effects of serotonergic activation by 5-hydroxytryptophan on sleep and body temperature of C57BL/6J and interleukin-6-deficient mice are dose and time related
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-01-2008)“…Extensive data implicate serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) in the regulation of sleep. Jouvet has hypothesized that 5-HT promotes wakefulness, yet is…”
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Differential effects of M2 and M3 muscarinic antagonists on the sleep-wake cycle
Published in Neuroreport (01-07-1991)“…To study the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes in sleep control, methoctramine (25, 50, 75 micrograms), a highly selective M2 antagonist, was injected…”
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Interleukin-1β enhances non-rapid eye movement sleep when microinjected into the dorsal raphe nucleus and inhibits serotonergic neurons in vitro
Published in The European journal of neuroscience (01-09-2003)“…Interleukin‐1 (IL‐1) and IL‐1 receptors are constitutively expressed in normal brain. IL‐1 increases non‐rapid eye movements (NREM) sleep in several animal…”
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Transgenic Fatal Familial Insomnia Mice Indicate Prion Infectivity-Independent Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Phenotypic Expression of Disease: e1004796
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-04-2015)“…Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and a genetic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD178) are clinically different prion disorders linked to the D178N prion…”
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Interleukin-1β modulates state-dependent discharge activity of preoptic area and basal forebrain neurons: role in sleep regulation
Published in The European journal of neuroscience (01-07-2004)“…Interleukin‐1β (IL‐1) is a pro‐inflammatory cytokine that has been implicated in the regulation of nonrapid eye movement (nonREM) sleep. IL‐1, IL‐1 receptors…”
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