Nonphotic phase shifting in hamster clock mutants.

doi:10.1177/074873049200700104

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Nonphotic phase shifting in hamster clock mutants.

Journal of biological rhythms - 1 Jan 1992

Mrosovsky N, Salmon P A, Menaker M, Ralph M R

Abstract excerpt

Golden hamsters with the tau mutation were kept in the dark and induced to become active through confinement to a novel running wheel for 3 hr. The response of the mutants to this nonphotic phase-shifting stimulus differed from that of wild-type hamsters. The mutants showed larger phase shifts, a...

Topics

Animals
Circadian Rhythm
Cricetinae
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Male
Mesocricetus
Motor Activity
Mutation

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