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Overview

Christelle Peyron is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research primarily centers on the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The main topics covered in their work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Sleep and related disorders, Circadian rhythm and melatonin, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Christelle Peyron include:

  • A circuit perspective on narcolepsy, 2020, SLEEP
  • Influenza vaccination induces autoimmunity against orexinergic neurons in a mouse model for narcolepsy, 2021, Brain
  • Effects of sex and estrous cycle on sleep and cataplexy in narcoleptic mice, 2022, SLEEP
  • Insights into paradoxical (REM) sleep homeostatic regulation in mice using an innovative automated sleep deprivation method, 2020, SLEEP
  • Histamine in murine narcolepsy: What do genetic and immune models tell us?, 2021, Brain Pathology

Frequent co-authors in Christelle Peyron's publications include Sébastien Arthaud, Silvia Melzi, Manon Villalba, Anne-Laure Morel, and Paul-Antoine Libourel.

Their work is often published in venues such as Médecine du Sommeil, SLEEP, Sleep Medicine, Brain, and Brain Pathology.

Best Publications

  • The hypocretins: Hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity

    L. de Lecea;T. S. Kilduff;C. Peyron;X.-B. Gao

  • Neurons Containing Hypocretin (Orexin) Project to Multiple Neuronal Systems

    Christelle Peyron;Devin K. Tighe;Anthony N. van den Pol;Anthony N. van den Pol;Luis de Lecea

  • A mutation in a case of early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin peptides in human narcoleptic brains

    Christelle Peyron;Juliette Faraco;William Rogers;Beth Ripley

  • Hypocretin (orexin) activation and synaptic innervation of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system.

    Tamas L. Horvath;Christelle Peyron;Sabrina Diano;Alexander Ivanov

  • FOREBRAIN AFFERENTS TO THE RAT DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS DEMONSTRATED BY RETROGRADE AND ANTEROGRADE TRACING METHODS

    C Peyron;J.-M Petit;C Rampon;M Jouvet

  • The hypocretin/orexin ligand-receptor system: implications for sleep and sleep disorders.

    Thomas S. Kilduff;Christelle Peyron

  • A role of melanin-concentrating hormone producing neurons in the central regulation of paradoxical sleep.

    Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny;Patrice Fort;Laurène Cagnon

  • Role and Origin of the GABAergic Innervation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons

    Damien Gervasoni;Christelle Peyron;Claire Rampon;Bruno Barbagli

  • Afferent projections to the rat nuclei raphe magnus, raphe pallidus and reticularis gigantocellularis pars α demonstrated by iontophoretic application of choleratoxin (subunit b)

    Dirk M Hermann;Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Christelle Peyron;Peter Hinckel

  • The neuronal network responsible for paradoxical sleep and its dysfunctions causing narcolepsy and rapid eye movement (REM) behavior disorder

    Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Olivier Clément;Emilie Sapin;Damien Gervasoni

  • Paradoxical (REM) sleep genesis: The switch from an aminergic–cholinergic to a GABAergic–glutamatergic hypothesis

    Pierre Hervé Luppi;Damien Gervasoni;Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny

  • Distribution of glycine-immunoreactive cell bodies and fibers in the rat brain

    C. Rampon;P.H. Luppi;P. Fort;C. Peyron

  • Lower brainstem catecholamine afferents to the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.

    Christelle Peyron;Pierre‐Hervé Luppi;Patrice Fort;Claire Rampon

  • The supramammillary nucleus and the claustrum activate the cortex during REM sleep

    Leslie Renouard;Leslie Renouard;Francesca Billwiller;Keiko Ogawa;Olivier Clément

  • Brainstem mechanisms of paradoxical (REM) sleep generation.

    Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Olivier Clement;Emilie Sapin;Christelle Peyron

  • CD8 T cell-mediated killing of orexinergic neurons induces a narcolepsy-like phenotype in mice

    Raphaël Bernard-Valnet;Lidia Yshii;Clémence Quériault;Xuan-Hung Nguyen

  • Gene expression in the rat brain during sleep deprivation and recovery sleep: an Affymetrix GeneChip study.

    A. Terao;J.P. Wisor;C. Peyron;A. Apte-Deshpande

  • Not a single but multiple populations of GABAergic neurons control sleep

    Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Christelle Peyron;Patrice Fort

  • Hypothalamic Immunopathology in Anti-Ma-Associated Diencephalitis With Narcolepsy-Cataplexy

    Yves Dauvilliers;Jan Bauer;Valérie Rigau;Nicole Lalloyer

  • Characterization of the melanin-concentrating hormone neurons activated during paradoxical sleep hypersomnia in rats.

    Lucie Hanriot;Nutabi Camargo;Anne Claire Courau;Lucienne Leger

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrice Fort
Patrice Fort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lucienne Léger
Lucienne Léger Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Denise Salvert
Denise Salvert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Claire Rampon
Claire Rampon Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers University of Montpellier
Thomas S. Kilduff
Thomas S. Kilduff SRI International
H. Craig Heller
H. Craig Heller Stanford University
Michel Jouvet
Michel Jouvet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Bruce F. O'Hara
Bruce F. O'Hara University of Kentucky

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