This project investigated the effects of repeated cycles of short sleep duration on vascular functioning and levels of inflammatory and adhesion molecules in peripheral circulation in healthy participants in order to determine if sleep is essential for homeostasis of multiple host defense mechanisms and if, when sleep is repeatedly insufficient, these systems begin to fail.
NIH/NHLBI R01 HL106782 [PI: Janet Mullington] 10/01/2010 – 08/31/2016