Twilights widen the range of photic entrainment in hamsters

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 353-363

  Boulos, Ziad ^a   Macchi, M Mila ^a   Terman, Michael ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Hamsters; Limits of entrainment; Parametric entrainment; Twilight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIOD;

EID: 0036675864     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074873002129002654     Document Type: Article

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