dijous, 16 d’abril del 2015

On the clock: Circadian genes may regulate brain plasticity




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By Nancy Fliesler


It's long been known that a master clock in the hypothalamus, deep in the center of our brain, governs our bodily functions on a 24-hour cycle. It keeps time through the oscillatory activity of timekeeper molecules, much of which is controlled by a gene fittingly named Clock.




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