Ocular clocks are tightly coupled and act as pacemakers in the circadian system of Japanese quail

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 284, Issue 1 53-1, 2003, Pages

  Steele, Christopher T ^a   Zivkovic, Bora D ^a   Siopes, Thomas ^a   Underwood, Herbert ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Circadian; Coturnix; Eye; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; DARKNESS; EYE; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL;

EID: 0037215524     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00447.2002     Document Type: Article

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