Impaired Morris water task retention following T21 light dark cycle exposure is not due to reduced hippocampal c-FOS expression.

Circadian rhythms influence virtually all aspects of physiology and behavior. This is problematic when circadian rhythms no longer reliably predict time. Circadian rhythm disruption can impair memory, yet we don't know how this fully works at the systems and molecular level.

Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory.

Some degree of circadian rhythm disruption is hard to avoid in today's society. Along, with many other deleterious effects, circadian rhythm disruption impairs memory. One way to study this is to expose rats to daylengths that are outside the range of entrainment.

UCP2 Overexpression Redirects Glucose into Anabolic Metabolic Pathways.

Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is often upregulated in cancer cells. The UCP2 upregulation is positively correlated with enhanced proliferation, tumorigenesis, and metabolic alterations, thus suggesting that UCP2 upregulation can play a key role in sensing metabolic changes to promote tumorigenesis. To determine the global metabolic impact of UCP2 upregulation, C glucose as a source molecule is used to "trace" the metabolic fate of carbon atoms derived from glucose.

Individual differences in valuing mates' physical attractiveness.

To investigate correlates of valuing physical attractiveness in a mate, it was hypothesized that valuing physical attractiveness in a mate would correlate with sex and valuing promiscuous sex, status, personal physical attractiveness, beauty, and order. Men and women college students completed measures of the extent to which they valued physical attractiveness in a mate and other variables. Valuing physical attractiveness in a mate was correlated with sex (men valued physical attractiveness in a mate more than did women) and valuing promiscuous sex and status, and, for women, valuing personal physical attractiveness.