Hypothalamic ventromedial nuclei amplify circadian rhythms: Do they contain a food-entrained endogenous oscillator?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3843-3852

  Choi, SuJean ^a   Wong, Lai Sze ^a   Yamat, Cherrilyn ^a   Dallman, Mary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos protein; Circadian rhythms; Endogenous oscillators; Hypothalamus; Subparaventricular zone; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Ventromedial nucleus

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTERONE; INSULIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0344701101     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-10-03843.1998     Document Type: Article

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