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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
retina and thehypothalamus ; used especially of the retinohypothalamic tract, aphotic input pathway involved in thecircadian rhythms ofmammals .
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There is a pathway from the retinas to the hypothalamus, called the retinohypothalamic tract.
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Lenn NJ (1972) A retinohypothalamic projection in the rat.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Siddheshwar J. Utge et al. 2010
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The only well developed visual domains are those involved in controlling the circadian and circannual biological rhythms - the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the retinohypothalamic projections.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ondřej Kott et al. 2010
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Miyamoto Y, Sancar A (1998) Vitamin B2-based blue-light photoreceptors in the retinohypothalamic tract as the photoactive pigments for setting the circadian clock in mammals.
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