The dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus is critical for the expression of food-entrainable circadian rhythms

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 398-407

  Gooley, Joshua J ^a,b   Schomer, Ashley ^a   Saper, Clifford B ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33344469291     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1651     Document Type: Article

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