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Light transmission
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021213-03 doi:10.1186/20021213-03
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Melanopsin has been implicated as an important photoreceptive molecule connecting the circadian clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus to the retinal photoreceptors. Two papers in the December 13 Science confirm that in mice melanopsin acts as a signal molecule (but not the only one) transmitting light information from the eye to the part of the brain that controls the internal clock.
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