Staying off the dance floor: when no rhythm is better than bad rhythm.

@article{Turek2008StayingOT,
  title={Staying off the dance floor: when no rhythm is better than bad rhythm.},
  author={Fred W. Turek},
  journal={American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology},
  year={2008},
  volume={294 5},
  pages={
          R1672-4
        }
}
  • F. Turek
  • Published 1 May 2008
  • Psychology
  • American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology
the title of this editorial focus summarizes just one of the intriguing findings presented by Martino et al. ([8][1]). They report profound cardiorenal pathology in hamsters carrying a mutation in an important circadian clock gene, casein kinase-1 epsilon, which in heterozygous animals ( tau /+) 
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