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SUBMITTER: Miyamoto D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8129120 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miyamoto Daisuke D Marshall William W Tononi Giulio G Cirelli Chiara C
Nature communications 20210517 1
The mechanisms by which sleep benefits learning and memory remain unclear. Sleep may further strengthen the synapses potentiated by learning or promote broad synaptic weakening while protecting the newly potentiated synapses. We tested these ideas by combining a motor task whose consolidation is sleep-dependent, a marker of synaptic AMPA receptor plasticity, and repeated two-photon imaging to track hundreds of spines in vivo with single spine resolution. In mouse motor cortex, sleep leads to an ...[more]