Photoperiodic Regulation of Circulating Leukocytes in Juvenile Siberian Hamsters: Mediation by Melatonin and Testosterone

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 473-480

  Prendergast, Brian J ^a,b   Hotchkiss, Andrew K ^a   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune function; Phodopus sungorus; Photoperiodism; Puberty; Seasonal rhythms

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0345305745     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730403258486     Document Type: Article

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