One possible fuel that is burned is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) that creates adenosine when burned. When ATP is low and adenosine is high, it tells the body that is is time to sleep. While a postdoc at Harvard University, Prober helped lead in some experiments including a zebrafish given drugs that kept adenosine from attaching onto receptor molecules, thus causing the fish to sleep less. When the experiment was reversed, and the fish was given drugs of the opposite effect, it slept more. These studies have expanded since then, at
One possible fuel that is burned is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) that creates adenosine when burned. When ATP is low and adenosine is high, it tells the body that is is time to sleep. While a postdoc at Harvard University, Prober helped lead in some experiments including a zebrafish given drugs that kept adenosine from attaching onto receptor molecules, thus causing the fish to sleep less. When the experiment was reversed, and the fish was given drugs of the opposite effect, it slept more. These studies have expanded since then, at