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. 2015 May 27:4:e08166.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.08166.

Feeding time

Hugh D Piggins  1 , David A Bechtold  2
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Feeding time

Hugh D Piggins et al. Elife. .

Abstract

A hormone released from the gut after a meal can reset clock gene activity in the liver.

Keywords: biochemistry; cell biology; circadian clock; clock genes; food resetting; liver; mouse; per.

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Competing interests:The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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