A broad role for melanopsin in nonvisual photoreception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 7093-7106

  Gooley, Joshua J ^a,b   Lu, Jun ^a,b   Fischer, Dietmar ^c   Saper, Clifford B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adeno associated virus; Circadian; Entrainment; Ganglion cells; Hypothalamus; Intergeniculate; Masking; Melanopsin; Pretectal; Pupillary light reflex; Retina; Sleep; Subparaventricular; Suprachiasmatic; Ventrolateral preoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VISUAL MASKING;

EID: 0043127450     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-18-07093.2003     Document Type: Article

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