Cloning experiments and developmental expression of both melatonin receptor Mel(1A) mRNA and melatonin binding sites in the Syrian hamster suprachiasmatic nuclei

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-202

  Gauer, François ^a   Schuster, Carole ^a   Poirel, Vincent Joseph ^a   Pévet, Paul ^a   Masson Pévet, Mireille ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Development; In situ hybridization; Melatonin receptor; Postnatal; Suprachiasmatic nuclei; Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHODOPUS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032190556     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00177-6     Document Type: Article

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