Retinal input to the sleep-active ventrolateral preoptic nucleus in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 209-214

  Lu, J ^a   Shiromani, P ^b   Saper, C B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; Ganglion cell; Light; Retinohypothalamic tract

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ANIMALS; GALANIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033031954     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00094-9     Document Type: Article

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