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SUBMITTER: Sun L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385043 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Lingying L Ma Junjie J Turck Christoph W CW Xu Pin P Wang Guang-Zhong GZ
Computational and structural biotechnology journal 20200710
Circadian rhythms are 24-hour oscillations affecting an organism at multiple levels from gene expression all the way to tissues and organs. They have been observed in organisms across the kingdom of life, spanning from cyanobacteria to humans. In mammals, the master circadian pacemaker is located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) in the brain where it synchronizes the peripheral oscillators that exist in other tissues. This system regulates the circadian activity of a large part o ...[more]