Saturday, October 08, 2005

Body Clock

Emmanuel Mignot a sleep specialist at Standord Medical School, California, believes that there is a clock gene in mammals, which helps regulate their body clocks and determine preference for morning or night activities.

Another study claims that cryptochrome, a light sensing protein, regulates the ebb and flow of the body clock. The intrinsic machinery of the body clock can be reset by light.

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