CellWell record HH-3020
Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain
Xie L et al.
Science ยท 2013
In plain language
In a mouse study, sleep nearly doubled the brain's clearance of waste metabolites compared with wakefulness, a mechanism thought to inform human brain physiology too.
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