Per1 mutation enhances masking responses in mice.

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Light can restrict the activity of an animal to a diurnal or nocturnal niche by synchronizing its endogenous clock (entrainment) which controls the sleep wake cycle. Light can also directly change an animal's activity level (masking). In mice, high illumination levels decrease activity, i.e. negative masking occurs. To investigate the role of core circadian clock genes Per1 and Per2 in masking, we used a 5-day...

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