Identification of circadian brain photoreceptors mediating photic entrainment of behavioural rhythms in lizards

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 364-372

  Pasqualetti, Massimo ^a   Bertolucci, Cristiano ^b   Ori, Michela ^a   Innocenti, Augusto ^b   Magnone, Maria C ^b,d   De Grip, Willem J ^c   Nardi, Irma ^a   Foà, Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antisense; Circadian rhythms; Cloning; Deep brain photoreceptors; Entrainment; Immunocytochemistry; Opsin; Post transcriptional inactivation; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE CONSTRUCT; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA CONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONES (RETINA); DARKNESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OPSIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0042233510     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02770.x     Document Type: Article

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