Calbindin neurons in the hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus do not exhibit a circadian variation in spontaneous firing rate

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2469-2474

  Jobst, Erin E ^a   Allen, Charles N ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell attached patch clamp recording; Circadian rhythm

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; DARK ADAPTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0036925160     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02309.x     Document Type: Article

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