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Sleep deprivation and irregular sleep patterns can reduce glutathione levels, increasing oxidative stress
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Improves feed conversion, weight gain, and reproductive performance in deficient livestock
Sleep and depression are considered to be closely related
For instance, in mouse embryonic stem cells, targeted disruption of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, which is the rate-limiting enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway, the predominant metabolic pathway for the generation of NADPH (a cofactor of GR), renders cells extremely sensitive to H 2 O 2 -induced cell death 34