Daily variation and light responsiveness of mammalian clock gene, Clock and BMAL1, transcripts in the pineal body and different areas of brain in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-72

  Namihira, Masakazu ^a   Honma, Sato ^a   Abe, Hiroshi ^a   Tanahashi, Yusuke ^a   Ikeda, Masaaki ^b   Honma, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Clock gene; Light; Pineal

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BMAL 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBELLUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHTING; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033591209     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00324-9     Document Type: Article

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