Insufficient Sleep and the Impact on Immune Stem Cells (IMAGE)

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Insufficient Sleep and the Impact on Immune Stem Cells

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Insufficient Sleep and the Impact on Immune Stem Cells. The left side of the figure shows the sleep time of the humans in the study. Participants in the sleep restriction group (the red dots) slept less over the six weeks. The right side of the figure the stem cell analysis. The first graph shows that people in the sleep restriction group (again red dots) had more stem cells. The remainder of the figure represents the ‘DNA structure and re-programming. The red and blue colors show locations in the genome that were re-wired. The bottom ‘peaks’ are specific genes that researchers looked at and shows the re-wiring at these locations.

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