Timely administration of melatonin accelerates reentrainment to phase- shifted light-dark cycles in the field mouse Mus booduga

Chronobiology International

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-170

  Sharma, Vijay Kumar ^a   Singaravel, Muniyandi ^b,c   Subbaraj, Ramanujam ^b   Chandrashekaran, Maroli K ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Circadian; Melatonin; Phase shift; Reentrainment

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA; MUS BOODUGA;

EID: 0032916355     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07420529909019083     Document Type: Article

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