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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2017

Brain energetics during the sleep-wake cycle.

Mauro DiNuzzo, Maiken Nedergaard

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Sleep loss as a cardiometabolic risk factor: a narrative review of clinical and public health implications.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026
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  3. Wake-promoting neuromodulators in Alzheimer's disease: Implications for sleep and brain clearance.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  7. Neurobiology of mitochondrial dynamics in sleep.The Journal of physiology · 2025
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  11. ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. CaActa physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2025
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  16. Phylogenetic conservation of the interdependent homeostatic relationship of sleep regulation and redox metabolism.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2024
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  18. Divergent Learning-Related Transcriptional States of Cortical Glutamatergic Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Mauro DiNuzzoCenter for Basic and Translational Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: mauro.dinuzzo@sund.ku.dk.
Maiken NedergaardCenter for Basic and Translational Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, NY 14640, USA.
University of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

Para-Vascular Basis of Small Vessel DiseaseR01NS100366 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI NEDERGAARD, MAIKEN · 2016 to 2020
$3.8M
The glymphatic system, a new concept in glia biologyR01NS078304 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI NEDERGAARD, MAIKEN · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
Glymphatic function in a transgenic rat model of Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG048769 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI BENVENISTE, HELENE D, NEDERGAARD, MAIKEN · 2014 to 2018
$1.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048769NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS078304NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain activity during wakefulness is associated with high metabolic rates that are believed to support information processing and memory encoding. In spite of loss of consciousness, sleep still carries a substantial energy cost. Experimental evidence supports a cerebral metabolic shift taking place during sleep that suppresses aerobic glycolysis, a hallmark of environment-oriented waking behavior and synaptic plasticity. Recent studies reveal that glial astrocytes respond to the reduction of wake-promoting neuromodulators by regulating volume, composition and glymphatic drainage of interstitial fluid. These events are accompanied by changes in neuronal discharge patterns, astrocyte-neuron interactions, synaptic transactions and underlying metabolic features. Internally-generated neuronal activity and network homeostasis are proposed to account for the high sleep-related energy demand.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainHumansNeurogliaNeuronsSleepWakefulness

Identifiers

PMID29024871
PMCPMC5732842
OpenAlexW2762575841

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