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The cerebellum harbors a circadian oscillator involved in food anticipation.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 3 Feb 2010
Mendoza Jorge, Pévet Paul, Felder-Schmittbuhl Marie-Paule, Bailly Yannick, Challet Etienne
Abstract excerpt
The cerebellum participates in motor coordination as well as in numerous cerebral processes, including temporal discrimination. Animals can predict daily timing of food availability, as manifested by food-anticipatory activity under restricted feeding. By studying ex vivo clock gene expression by in situ hybridization and recording in vitro Per1-luciferase bioluminescence, we report that the cerebellum contains a...
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