The development of diurnal rhythmicity in fetal suprachiasmatic neurons as demonstrated by Fos immunohistochemistry

Neuroscience

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 917-926

  Breen, S ^a   Rees, S ^a   Walker, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Fetus; Hypothalamus; Immediate early gene; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030564975     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(96)00128-5     Document Type: Article

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