The lower entrainable limit of rat circadian rhythm to sinusoidal light intensity cycles: A preliminary study

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-217

  Usui, Setsuo ^a   Okazaki, Terue ^a   Takahashi, Yasuro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Entrainment; Free running rhythm; Light intensity; Zeitgeber

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; RAT; RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARK ADAPTATION; DRINKING; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033063284     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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