The ERK/MAP kinase pathway couples light to immediate-early gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1617-1627

  Dziema, Heather ^a   Oatis, Ben ^a   Butcher, Greg Q ^a   Yates, Robert ^a   Hoyt, Kari R ^a   Obrietan, Karl ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; CRE; CREB; Mouse; Transcription

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0038751749     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02592.x     Document Type: Article

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