Pinealectomy does not affect diurnal PER2 expression in the rat limbic forebrain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 399, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 147-150

  Amir, Shimon ^a   Harbour, Valerie L ^a   Robinson, Barry ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Central nucleus of the amygdala; Diurnal rhythm; Hippocampus; Oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; PER2; Pineal gland; Rat; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PINEAL BODY HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MELATONIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PINEAL GLAND; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33646080350     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.041     Document Type: Article

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