Chapter 24 The suprachiasmastic nucleus: The biological clock of all seasons

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue C, 1996, Pages 369-384

  Pevet, P ^a,b   Pitrosky, B ^a,b   Vuillez, P ^a,b   Jacob, N ^a,b   Teclemariam Mesbah, R ^a,b   Kirsch, R ^a,b   Vivien Roels, B ^a,b   Lakhdar Ghazal, N ^a,b,c   Canguilhem, B ^a,b   Masson Pevet, M ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HAMSTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MELATONIN; SEASONS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030329706     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)60419-7     Document Type: Article

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