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  • initialism South American Community of Nations
  • initialism Soybean cyst nematode
  • initialism suprachiasmatic nuclei
  • initialism Server Change Number
  • initialism Scottish Candidate Number

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  • This region, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus or SCN, is just above the optic nerve on both sides of the brain.

    Boing Boing: February 3, 2002 - February 9, 2002 Archives 2002

  • For a few decades neuroscientists have known that circadian rhythms, the sleep and alertness cycles that we experience every day, are controlled by a part of the brain in the hypothalamus called the SCN suprachiasmatic nucleus.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • For a few decades neuroscientists have known that circadian rhythms, the sleep and alertness cycles that we experience every day, are controlled by a part of the brain in the hypothalamus called the SCN suprachiasmatic nucleus.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Human circadian rhythms are controlled by a region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, which is located in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that regulates many of the tasks of the autonomic nervous system.

    Driving under the influence...of fatigue ewillett 2007

  • Consistent with the behavioral deficits, light-induced phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK) in the SCN, which is suggested to be a highly sensitive light detector and a determinant of the magnitude of phase delay

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • Consistent with the behavioral deficits, light-induced phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK) in the SCN, which is suggested to be a highly sensitive light detector and a determinant of the magnitude of phase delay

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • Consistent with the behavioral deficits, light-induced phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK) in the SCN, which is suggested to be a highly sensitive light detector and a determinant of the magnitude of phase delay

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • The SCN, which is located in the hypothalamus in the brain, transmits information taken from the retina to the pineal gland.

    The Local - Sweden's news in English 2008

  • I caught part of this documentary on snakes last night on SCN.

    Nature is Awesome: Snake eats deer whole Tyler 2009

  • I caught part of this documentary on snakes last night on SCN.

    Archive 2009-06-28 Tyler 2009

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