Molecular components of the mammalian circadian clock

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Ko, Caroline H ^a,b   Takahashi, Joseph S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE IDELTA; CASEIN KINASE IEPSILON; PROTEIN BMAL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

CELL CULTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33749031807     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl207     Document Type: Review

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