Effects of daily injections of melatonin on locomotor activity rhythms in rats maintained under constant bright or dim light

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 767-773

  Marumoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Murakami, Noboru ^a   Katayama, Tetsuro ^a   Kuroda, Haruto ^a   Murakami, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Melatonin; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030249108     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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