Luminance-dependent decrease in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-24

  Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a   Tominaga, Keiko ^b   Inouye, Shin Ichi T ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Enzyme immunoassay; Light stimulation; Rat; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LUMINANCE; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MALE; PUPIL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0032540865     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00491-1     Document Type: Article

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