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Temporal chimeras produced by hypothalamic transplants.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Sept 1992
Vogelbaum M A, Menaker M
Abstract excerpt
The expression of locomotor activity by golden hamsters is temporally controlled by circadian oscillators contained within the suprachiasmatic nuclei. A genetic mutation has been found that alters the freerunning period of the locomotor activity rhythm from the wild-type value of approximately 24 to approximately 20 hr in homozygous mutants. It has been shown previously that a transplant of fetal hypothalamic...
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