Circadian rhythms from flies to human
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- 16 May 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 417 (6886), 329-335
- https://doi.org/10.1038/417329a
Abstract
In this era of jet travel, our body 'remembers' the previous time zone, such that when we travel, our sleep–wake pattern, mental alertness, eating habits and many other physiological processes temporarily suffer the consequences of time displacement until we adjust to the new time zone. Although the existence of a circadian clock in humans had been postulated for decades, an understanding of the molecular mechanisms has required the full complement of research tools. To gain the initial insights into circadian mechanisms, researchers turned to genetically tractable model organisms such as Drosophila.This publication has 85 references indexed in Scilit:
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