Artificial lighting conditions and melatonin alter motor performance in adult rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-36

  Poulos, Stephen G ^a   Borlongan, Cesario V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological clock; Circadian rhythm; Light; Motor coordination; Nocturnal; Rotorod

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DRUG EFFECT; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MALE; MELATONIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033973599     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00997-0     Document Type: Article

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