title: Taking into account circadian rhythm when conducting experiments on animals.
abstract: Do your kidneys know what time it is? Mounting evidence from human studies and animal models strongly suggests that the answer to this question is yes. The time has come to start reporting the time of day at which renal physiology studies are performed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Michelle.Gumz@medicine.ufl.edu.
authors.forename: Michelle L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Gumz
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: circadian rhythm; physiology; reproducibility; rigor