Organization of rat circadian rhythms during daily infusion of melatonin or S20098, a melatonin agonist

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 3 46-3, 1999, Pages

  Pitrosky, B ^a   Kirsch, R ^a   Malan, A ^a   Mocaer, E ^b   Pevet, P ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Entrainment

Indexed keywords

AGOMELATINE; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG MECHANISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING;

EID: 0032834067     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.277.3.r812     Document Type: Article

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