聯合翻譯 引用自 Taipei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2014/05/08/2003589793
Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests.
In mice, prolonged lack of sleep led to 25 percent of certain brain cells dying, according to a study in The Journal of Neuroscience.
If the same is true in humans, it may be futile to try to catch up on missed sleep, say US scientists.
They think it may one day be possible to develop a drug to protect the brain from the side-effects of lost sleep.
The study looked at lab mice that were kept awake to replicate the kind of sleep loss common in modern life, through night shifts or long hours in the office.
A team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine studied certain brain cells which are involved in keeping the brain alert.
After several days of sleep patterns similar to those followed by night workers — three days of night shifts with only four to five hours sleep in 24 hours — the mice lost 25 percent of the brain cells.
今日單字
1. prolonged adj.
長期的 (chang2 qi2 de5)
例: Prolonged use of the drug is known to have harmful side-effects.
(長期使用藥物已知會有不良副作用。)
2. futile adj.
無益的 (wu2 yi4 de5)
例: It’s quite futile trying to reason with him. He just won’t listen.
(跟他講理沒有用，他不會聽。)
3. catch up v. phr.
趕上 (gan3 shang4)
例: He was off school for a while and is finding it hard to catch up.
(他離開學校一陣子，現在發現很難趕上。)
聯合翻譯 引用自 Taipei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2014/05/08/2003589793
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