Suprachiasmatic nucleus: Role in circannual body mass and hibernation rhythms of ground squirrels

Brain Research

Volumn 782, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 63-72

  Ruby, Norman F ^a   Dark, John ^b   Heller, H Craig ^a   Zucker, Irving ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food intake; Metabolism; Thermoregulation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HIBERNATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLD; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; PERIODICITY; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032567738     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01263-8     Document Type: Article

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