TY  - JOUR
T1  - ANesthesia and sleep circuits
AU  - Hampton T
Y1  - 2012/12/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.77558
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2326
EP  - 2326
VL  - 308
IS  - 22
N2  - 
Through staining experiments and electrophysiological studies, scientists from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania found that the anesthetic drug isoflurane boosts activity in the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), a sleep-promoting brain area within the hypothalamus. Both natural sleep and anesthetic-induced unconsciousness produced similar increases in numbers of active neurons in this region.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.77558
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.77558
ER  -