Day-night changes in plasma melatonin levels, synaptophysin expression and ultrastructural properties of pinealocytes in developing female sheep under natural long and short photoperiods

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 333-342

  Redondo, Eloy ^a   Regodon, S ^a   Franco, A ^a   Masot, J ^a   Gazquez A ^a   Cardinali, D P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Long and short photoperiods; Melatonin; Pinealocytes; Radioimmunoassay; Sheep; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; MELATONIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PLASMA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SHEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANELLES; PEROXIDASES; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0037378909     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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