Mammalian Cry1 and Cry2 are essential for maintenance of circadian rhythms

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 627-630

  Van Der Horst, Gijsbertus T J ^a   Muijtjens, Manja ^a   Kobayashi, Kumiko ^b   Takano, Riya ^b   Kanno, Shin Ichiro ^b   Takao, Masashi ^b   De Wit, Jan ^a   Verkerk, Anton ^a   Eker, Andre P M ^a   Van Leenen, Dik ^c   Buijs, Ruud ^d   Bootsma, Dirk ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^a   Yasui, Akira ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL LINE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLAVOPROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033560863     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19323     Document Type: Article

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