Simultaneous manifestation of free-running and entrained rhythms in the rat motor activity explained by a multioscillatory system

Chronobiology International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-18

  Vilaplana, Jordi ^a   Cambras, Trinitat ^a   Campuzano, Anna ^a   Diez Noguera, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm; entrainment; LD cycles; masking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; RAT; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030998026     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07420529709040537     Document Type: Article

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