Light responsiveness of the suprachiasmatic nucleus: Long-term multiunit and single-unit recordings in freely moving rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9078-9087

  Meijer, Johanna H ^a,e   Watanabe, Kazuto ^b   Schaap, Jeroen ^a   Albus, Henk ^a,c   Détári, László ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Instituut voor Epilepsiebestrijding   (Netherlands)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e Department of Physiology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circadian; Electrophysiology; Entrainment; Multiunit activity; Photic; Rat; Single cells; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME;

EID: 0032211067     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09078.1998     Document Type: Article

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