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Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

More than Meets the Eye: Biological Clocks

  • Open or Close Roberto Paganelli*

    Department of Medicine and Sciences of Aging, University G d Annunzio and Ce. S.I. Me.T, Italy

    *Corresponding author: Roberto Paganelli, Department of Medicine and Sciences of Aging, University “G d’Annunzio” and Ce.S.I.-Me.T., Chieti, Italy

Submission: October 10, 2017; Published: November 13, 2017

DOI: 10.31031/MSOR.2017.01.000502

ISSN: 2578-0360
Volume1 Issue1

Abstract

The discovery of an intrinsically photosensitive small subgroup of retinal ganglion cells which regulates the circadian rhythms on the light-dark cycle has stimulated the search for the molecular clock(s) driving this essential component of all living organisms. A handful of genes and proteins accounting for this complex regulatory network has been identified, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded in 2017 to three of the principal scientists who contributed to this research field ; (http:// www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2017/ press.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_ campaign=twitter_tweet, accessed on Oct. 5th, 2017).

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