Day-night rhythm of acetylcholine in the rat pineal gland

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-176

  Wessler, I ^a   Reinheimer, T ^a   Bittinger, F ^a   Kirkpatrick, C J ^a   Schenda, J ^a   Vollrath, L ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Choline acetyltransferase; Day night regulation; Immunohistochemistry; Pinealocytes; Rat pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030942077     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00165-1     Document Type: Article

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