Maternal feeding controls fetal biological clock.

BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that circadian physiological rhythms of the fetus are affected by oscillators in the maternal brain that are coupled to the environmental light-dark (LD) cycle. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: To study the link between fetal and maternal biological clocks, we invest...

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Main Authors: Hidenobu Ohta, Shanhai Xu, Takahiro Moriya, Masayuki Iigo, Tatsuya Watanabe, Norimichi Nakahata, Hiroshi Chisaka, Takushi Hanita, Tadashi Matsuda, Toshihiro Ohura, Yoshitaka Kimura, Nobuo Yaegashi, Shigeru Tsuchiya, Hajime Tei, Kunihiro Okamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2432029?pdf=render