Article
Advanced light-entrained activity onsets and restored free-running suprachiasmatic nucleus circadian rhythms in per2/dec mutant mice.
Chronobiology international - 1 Nov 2011
Bode Brid, Taneja Reshma, Rossner Moritz J, Oster Henrik
Abstract excerpt
Many behavioral and physiological processes display diurnal (24-h) rhythms controlled by an internal timekeeping system?the circadian clock. In mammals, a circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus and synchronizes peripheral oscillators found in most other tissues with the external light-dark (LD) cycle. At the molecular level, circadian clocks are regulated by...
Topics
- Activity Cycles
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Circadian Rhythm
- Feedback, Physiological
- Homeodomain Proteins
- In Situ Hybridization
- Locomotion
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
