Circadian timekeeping in hyperactive and hypertensive inbred rat strains

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 3 40-3, 1996, Pages

  Rosenwasser, Alan M ^a   Pellowski, Mark W ^b   Hendley, Edith D ^b  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

activity; entrainment; genetic hypertension; spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERTENSION; INBRED STRAIN; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0029825967     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.271.3.r787     Document Type: Article

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