Figure 3.

Expression of GPD1 in the blood. A. The expression of GPD1 was measured by RTqPCR in the blood of controls (C), animals subjected to paradoxical sleep deprivation for 96 hours (PSD96) and animals subjected to PSD and sleep recovery for 24 hours (SR24). B. The expression of GPD1 was also evaluated in animals subjected to total sleep deprivation for 6 hours (TSD6) and compared to the control (C). The relative expression fold changes were calculated using the 2^-ddCt method for each reference genes or the normalization factor (NF) generated by GeNorm software. Error bar represents standard error of the mean. * p < 0.05 compared to control (ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test).