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The research was published online in the journal Sleep.
The study group comprised 29 community-dwelling older adults in the age group of 61-86 years with 48 percent being male. They underwent an experimental partial sleep deprivation protocol over four nights, including adaptation, an uninterrupted night of sleep, partial sleep deprivation and another uninterrupted night of sleep (recovery).
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Results showed that one night of partial sleep deprivation activates gene expression patterns in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) consistent with increasing accumulation of damage that initiates cell cycle arrest and increases susceptibility to senescence.
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