Age-related changes in the photoperiodic response of siberian hamsters

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 172-177

  Bernard, Daniel J ^a   Losee Olson, Susan ^a   Turek, Fred W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0030906698     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.172     Document Type: Article

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