Rat pineal arylalkylamine-N-acetyltransferase: Cyclic AMP inducibility of its gene depends on prior entrained photoperiod

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 45-55

  Engel, Lydia ^a   Mathes, Alexander ^a   Schwerdtle, Isabell ^a   Heinrich, Bettina ^a   Pogorzelski, Benjamin ^a   Holthues, Heike ^a   Vollrath, Lutz ^a   Spessert, Rainer ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arylalkylamine N acetyltransferase (AA NAT); Cyclic AMP; Endocrine and autonomic regulation; Melatonin; Neuroendocrine regulation: other; Photoperiod; Protein kinase A (PKA); Rat pineal

Indexed keywords

ARALKYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INDUCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DARKNESS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; MELATONIN; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1642371012     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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