Circadian periods of single suprachiasmatic neurons in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 157-160

  Honma, Sato ^a   Shirakawa, Tetsuo ^b   Katsuno, Yumiko ^a   Namihira, Masakazu ^a   Honma, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Circadian rhythm; Locomotor activity; Multi channel extracellular recording; Neuronal activity; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032503952     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00464-9     Document Type: Article

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