Hypothalamic integration of central and peripheral clocks

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 521-526

  Buijs, Ruud M ^a   Kalsbeek, Andries ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; HORMONE;

ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHOTOPERIOD; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0035407215     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35081582     Document Type: Article

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