Free running circadian rhythms of melatonin, luteinizing hormone, and cortisol in Syrian hamsters bearing the circadian tau mutation

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 758-764

  Lucas, Robert J ^a   Stirland, J Anne ^b   Darrow, Janet M ^c   Menaker, Michael ^c   Loudon, Andrew S I ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HAMSTER; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OVARIECTOMY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032933113     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.2.6538     Document Type: Article

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