Morning and evening circadian oscillations in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in vitro

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 372-376

  Jagota, Anita ^a,b   De La Iglesia, Horacio O ^a   Schwartz, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIGHTING; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034079686     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73943     Document Type: Article

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