Sleep deprivation triggers somatostatin neurons in prefrontal cortex to initiate nesting and sleep via the preoptic and lateral hypothalamus
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- 2 July 2020
- preprint content
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Abstract
Animals undertake specific behaviors before sleep. Little is known about whether these innate behaviors, such as nest building, are actually an intrinsic part of the sleep-inducing circuitry. We found, using activity-tagging genetics, that mouse prefrontal cortex (PFC) somatostatin/GABAergic (SOM/GABA) neurons, which become activated during sleep deprivation, induce nest building when opto-activated. These tagged neurons induce sustained global NREM sleep if their activation is prolonged metabotropically. Sleep-deprivation-tagged PFC SOM/GABA neurons have long-range projections to the lateral preoptic (LPO) and lateral hypothalamus (LH). Local activation of tagged PFC SOM/GABA terminals in LPO and the LH induced nesting and NREM sleep respectively. Our findings provide a circuit link for how the PFC responds to sleep deprivation by coordinating sleep preparatory behavior and subsequent sleep.Keywords
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