The Orexin/Hypocretin System Physiology and Pathophysiology /

Impairment of orexin/hypocretin signaling causes narcolepsy-cataplexy in animals and humans. Most human narcolepsy-cataplexy cases are associated with orexin/hypocretin ligand deficiency, which can be detected clinically using cerebrospinal orexin/hypocretin measures and may lead to future treatment...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nishino, Seiji (Editor), Sakurai, Takeshi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
Series:Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
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