Quantitative analyses of circadian gene expression in mammalian cell cultures.

The central circadian pacemaker is located in the hypothalamus of mammals, but essentially the same oscillating system operates in peripheral tissues and even in immortalized cell lines. Using luciferase reporters that allow automated monitoring of circadian gene expression in mammalian fibroblasts,...

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Main Authors: Mariko Izumo, Takashi R Sato, Martin Straume, Carl Hirschie Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1599765?pdf=render