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The overall goal of these studies was to determine the nature of the signals used by circadian pacemaker located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) to convey the time of day information to the rest of the organism. In these studies, we used the Syrian hamster as a model for in…

The objectives of this study were to understand the molecular endocrinology of three different genes/receptors important in the reproductive cycle of the turkey. In the first study, we cloned turkey VIP cDNAs and presented evidence that, unlike the mammalian prepro-VIP molecule,…