Severe loss of vasopressin-immunoreactive cells in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of aging voles coincides with reduced circadian organization of running wheel activity

Brain Research

Volumn 816, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 572-579

  Van Der Zee, E A ^a   Jansen, K ^a   Gerkema, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Arginine vasopressin; Circadian rhythm; Common vole; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TREADMILL; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE; VOLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CELL COUNT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RUNNING; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0033596513     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01239-6     Document Type: Article

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