Morphological Changes in the Hypothalamic Suprachiasmatic Nucleus and Circadian Rhythm of Locomotor Activity in Hereditary Microphthalmic Rats

Experimental Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-124

  Sugita, Shoei ^a   Minematsu, Sumio ^b   Nagai, Katsuya ^c   Sugahara, Kunio ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind; Circadian rhythm; Dendrite; Golgi Cox; SCN; VIP neuron

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROPHTHALMOS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0030119523     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.45.115     Document Type: Article

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