Integration and saturation within the circadian photic entrainment pathway of hamsters

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 5 46-5, 1999, Pages

  Nelson, Dwight E ^a   Takahashi, Joseph S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity rhythms; Biological clock; Phase shifts; Suprachiasmatic nuclei

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HAMSTER; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032778756     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.277.5.r1351     Document Type: Article

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