Entrainment of rat circadian rhythms by melatonin does not depend on the serotonergic afferents to the suprachiasmatic nuclei

Brain Research

Volumn 876, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 10-16

  Slotten, Helge A ^a,b   Pitrosky, Bruno ^a   Pévet, Paul ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

5,7 dihydroxytryptamine; Entrainment; Melatonin; Rat; SCN; Seratonin

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MALE; NERVE LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MALE; MELATONIN; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEROTONIN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034623177     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02590-7     Document Type: Article

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