Quantitative differences in the circadian rhythm of locomotor activity and vasopressin and vasoactive intestinal peptide gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of tau mutant compared to wildtype hamsters

Brain Research

Volumn 736, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 251-259

  Scarbrough, Kathryn ^a   Turek, Fred W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm; locomotor behavior; suprachiasmatic nucleus; tau mutant hamster; vasoactive intestinal peptide; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030583632     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00709-3     Document Type: Article

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