Before their own central clocks develop, the brains of fetal rats detect their mother’s metabolic cycle to help regulate the expression of certain genes. Within the hypothalamus, dual structures ...

In rats, the hour of birth is gated over a 36-hr temporal window by the phase of the daily light-dark cycle during pregnancy. We have previously shown that the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the ...

The intestinal BBM associated taurine transport mechanism was therefore examined using rat jejunal vesicles prepared ... greater degree than did more (SCN −) or less (SO 4 =) permeant salts.