Article
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, and their phase response curves differed in shape, with an advance portion at about circadian time 24, a phase at which...
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