The phrase "altering clock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications made to a clock, whether literal or metaphorical, such as changing the time or adjusting settings.
Example: "The technician was busy altering the clock to ensure it was synchronized with the atomic time standard."
Alternatives: "adjusting the clock" or "modifying the clock".
Recently, cell-type specific targeting of altered clock gene alleles revealed the physiological relevance of peripheral oscillators in the retina [8], heart [9], liver [10], [11] and pancreas [12].
Experiments utilized 500-µm coronal brain slices containing the mid-SCN, prepared during daytime ≥2 h before the onset of the dark phase, as preparation at night can alter clock phase [24], [25].
Considering the role of the circadian system in the control of cell division [8] [10], especially important during early development, altered clock mechanisms might lead to multiple subtle embryonic abnormalities.
The spatial convergence of PDF and CRY signaling at critical pacemaker nodes may create a coincidence detector, whose super-additive read-out(s) could alter clock properties more efficiently than either one alone.
In accordance with previous report [22], the dramatic decrease of the circulating corticosterone concentration (215.30±24.29 ng/ml vs. 53.76±6.48 ng/ml for the control and adrenalectomized group, respectively, p<0.01 at each time point, two-way ANOVA) did not alter clock gene transcription profiles in the liver of mice raised for ten days under either DRF or NRF schedules (Figure 4A).
This signal was enough to alter clock gene activity in the liver.
We thus concluded that misexpression of any of these three transcription factors could alter clock parameters.
We described an additional 20 misexpression lines that exhibit altered clock phenotypes.
This suggests that the increase in somite length is not a consequence of an altered clock period.
The deregulation of G1 S checkpoint control by the circadian clock can relate to altered clock gene expression patterns in the tumour, as it was found for GOS (Filipski et al, 2004, 2005).
