Dec1 and Dec2 Expression Is Disrupted in the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei of Clock Mutant Mice

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-134

  Butler, Matthew Preston ^a,c   Honma, Sato ^a   Fukumoto, Tatsuya ^a   Kawamoto, Takeshi ^b   Fujimoto, Katsumi ^b   Noshiro, Mitsuhide ^b   Kato, Yukio ^b   Honma, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factors; Circadian rhythms; Clock genes; Parietal cortex; Per1; Piriform cortex

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN BMAL1; PROTEIN DEC1; PROTEIN DEC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEC1 GENE; DEC2 GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PER1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642360037     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730403262870     Document Type: Article

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