The biological clock nucleus: A multiphasic oscillator network regulated by light

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8070-8076

  Quintero, Jorge E ^a,c   Kuhlman, Sandra J ^a,d   McMahon, Douglas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Confocal microscopy; Electrophysiology; Entrainment; Gene expression; GFP; Period 1; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Time lapse imaging; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN SLICE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARKNESS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SPIKE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0041835846     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-22-08070.2003     Document Type: Article

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