Temporal chimeras produced by hypothalamic transplants.

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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...

Topics

Animals
Brain Tissue Transplantation
Chimera
Circadian Rhythm
Cricetinae
Fetal Tissue Transplantation
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Mesocricetus
Motor Activity
Mutation
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

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