Nimodipine potentiates light-induced phase shifts of circadian activity rhythms but not c-fos expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of mice

Brain Research

Volumn 966, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-161

  Benloucif, Susan ^a   Masana, Monica I ^a   Zee, Phyllis C ^a   Dubocovich, Margarita L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Calcium antagonist; Immediate early gene; Phase delay

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; NIMODIPINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0037436470     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04195-1     Document Type: Article

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