Control of rat hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin neurons by a circadian clock that is entrained by the daily light-off signal

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1051-1061

  Jamali, K A ^a   Tramu, G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Endorphin; Circadian clock; Fos protein; Light dark cues; Opioid peptide

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NEURONS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032774452     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00208-0     Document Type: Article

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