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SUBMITTER: Li JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2713041 | biostudies-other | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Li Jia-Da JD Hu Wang-Ping WP Boehmer Lisa L Cheng Michelle Y MY Lee Alex G AG Jilek Alexander A Siegel Jerome M JM Zhou Qun-Yong QY
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20061101 45
Circadian clocks drive daily rhythms in virtually all organisms. In mammals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is recognized as the master clock that synchronizes central and peripheral oscillators to evoke circadian rhythms of diverse physiology and behavior. How the timing information is transmitted from the SCN clock to generate overt circadian rhythms is essentially unknown. Prokineticin 2 (PK2), a clock-controlled gene that encodes a secreted protein, has been indicated as a candidate SCN c ...[more]