Rhythmic multiunit neural activity in slices of hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus reflect prior photoperiod

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 278, Issue 4 47-4, 2000, Pages

  Mrugala, Maciej ^a   Zlomanczuk, Piotr ^a,b   Jagota, Anita ^a,c   Schwartz, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Photoperiodism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034002610     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.278.4.r987     Document Type: Article

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