Sentences with phrase «follicle circadian genes»
At the end of 3 weeks, when the volunteers were waking up about 4 hours later than they used to, the activity of their hair follicle circadian genes had shifted too — but only by about two and a half 2 1/2 hours, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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«Clock genes» control our circadian rhythms, and the easiest place to extract evidence of their activity is from hair follicles, according to researchers at Japan's Yamaguchi University.
Tracking clock genes in hair follicles could help researchers better monitor patients with sleep disorders and other circadian rhythm dysfunction, says molecular biologist Ueli Schibler of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.