Many body functions keep a daily rhythm, maintained by a central clock in the brain. But how does the clock communicate with the rest of the body? The small protein prokineticin 2 looks well placed to be the messenger.
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Hastings, M. A gut feeling for time. Nature 417, 391–392 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417391a
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