Adenosine promotes sleep by inhibiting hypocretin/orexin neurons in the basal forebrain, lateral hypothalamus, and tuberomammillary nucleus, while simultaneously activating neurons in the preoptic/anterior hypothalamic area and ventrolateral preoptic area.

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• sleep concept
• hypocretin concept