Daily torpor alters multiple gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and pineal gland of the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)

Chronobiology International

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 269-276

  Herwig, Annika ^a,b   Revel, Florent ^b   Saboureau, Michel ^b   Pévet, Paul ^b   Steinlechner, Stephan ^a  

^a Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aanat; Bmal1; Circadian rhythms; Clock genes; Daily torpor; Phodopus sungorus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BMAL1 GENE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; HYPOTHERMIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PER1 GENE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARYLALKYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 33646682870     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520500522424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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