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Cryptochrome, Circadian Cycle, Cell Cycle Checkpoints, and Cancer
1 Aug 2005
Abstract excerpt
It has been reported that disruption of the circadian clock may lead to increased risk of breast cancer in humans and to a high rate or ionizing radiation-induced tumors and mortality in mice. Cryptochrome 1 and cryptochrome 2 proteins are core components of the mammalian circadian clock and mice mutated in both genes are arrhythmic. We tested Cry1-/- Cry2-/- mice and fibroblasts derived from these mice for...
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