Light-induced phase shifts of circadian activity rhythms and immediate early gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus are attenuated in old C3H/HeN mice

Brain Research

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-42

  Benloucif, Susan ^a   Masana, Monica I ^a   Dubocovich, Margarita L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; c fos; circadian rhythm; jun B; light

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0031055918     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01182-1     Document Type: Article

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