Article
The tau mutation affects temperature compensation of hamster retinal circadian oscillators.
Neuroreport - 20 Apr 1998
Tosini G, Menaker M
Abstract excerpt
Neural retinas of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) express circadian rhythms of melatonin synthesis when cultured in constant darkness. Retinas from wild-type hamsters synthesize melatonin with a period close to 24 h, while retinas obtained from hamsters homozygous for the circadian muta...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cricetinae
- Culture Techniques
- Genotype
- Melatonin
- Mesocricetus
- Mutation
- Oscillometry
- Retina
- Temperature
- tau Proteins