Chronic sleep fragmentation shares similar pathogenesis with neurodegenerative diseases: Endosome‐autophagosome‐lysosome pathway dysfunction and microglia‐mediated neuroinflammation

Abstract

Chronic sleep fragmentation could initiate pathogenetic processes similar to the early stage of neurodegeneration, including dysfunction of endosome-autophagosome-lysosome pathway and microglia-mediated neuroinflammation. Our findings further strengthen the link between chronic sleep insufficiency and the initiation of neurodegeneration even if lack of genetic predisposition.