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Mutant circadian period as a marker of suprachiasmatic nucleus function.
Journal of biological rhythms - 1 Jan 1993
Menaker M, Vogelbaum M A
Abstract excerpt
Fetal suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) tissue transplanted into the third ventricle of hamsters bearing complete SCN lesions restores the circadian locomotor rhythm with a period that depends exclusively on the genetically determined period of the tissue donor. If the host is only partially lesioned and thus retains rhythmicity with its own genetically determined period, an implant from an animal of a different...
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