Normal Sleep and Sleep Fragmented Mice (image)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Caption

By 24 weeks the sons (below) of sleep-disturbed mothers weighed about 10 percent more than the sons (above) of mice with uninterrupted sleep.

Credit

Abdelnaby Kahlyfa

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