Light-induced c-Fos expression in the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus: Immunoelectron microscopy reveals co-localization in multiple cell types

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1950-1960

  Castel, Mona ^a   Belenky, Michael ^a   Cohen, Shulamith ^a   Wagner, Shlomo ^a   Schwartz, William J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Dual immunocytochemical labelling; Immediate early gene; Sabra mouse

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROPHYSIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN C FOS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPHYSINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0030981742     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb00762.x     Document Type: Article

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