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Parallel Measurement of Circadian Clock Gene Expression and Hormone Secretion in Human Primary Cell Cultures
Published on: November 11, 2016
Short circuiting the circadian system with a new generation of precision tools
Dawn H Loh1, Takashi Kudo1, Christopher S Colwell1
1Laboratory of Circadian and Sleep Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Abstract:
Circadian behavior in mammals is coordinated by neurons within the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). In this issue, Lee et al. (2015) and Mieda et al. (2015) applied state-of-the-art genetic tools to dissect the microcircuits within the SCN generating circadian rhythmic behavior.
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