A marked diurnal rhythm of melatonin ML(1A) receptor mRNA expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 303-306

  Neu, John M ^a   Niles, Lennard P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

actin; Circadian clock; Cyclic AMP; Rat hypothalamus; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030724571     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00218-0     Document Type: Article

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