Molecular mechanism of photoperiodic time measurement in the brain of Japanese quail

Chronobiology International

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 307-315

  Yasuo, Shinobu ^a   Watanabe, Miwa ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b   Yamamura, Takashi ^a   Nakao, Nobuhiro ^a   Takagi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ebihara, Shizufumi ^a   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese quail; Photoperiodic response; Thyroid hormone; Type 2 deiodinase; Type 3 deiodinase

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIO2 GENE; DIO3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; QUAIL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LIGHT; PHOTOPERIOD; THYROID HORMONES; TIME FACTORS;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646713702     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520500521913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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