The effect of continuous darkness and illumination on the function and the morphology of the pineal gland in the domestic pig

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 293-299

  Lewczuk, B ^a   Przybylska Gornowicz, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Continuous darkness; Continuous illumination; Light dark cycle; Pig; Pineal gland; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SWINE;

EID: 0033895504     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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