Encoding the ins and outs of circadian pacemaking

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 470-481

  Kuhlman, Sandra J ^a   McMahon, Douglas G ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Circadian rhythms; Destabilized GFP; Electrophysiology; Gene induction; Intrinsic excitability; Period1; Potassium channels; Sodium channels; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONDUCTANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; ION CURRENT; LIGHT; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPIKE WAVE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ION CHANNELS; LIGHT; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33750706568     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730406294316     Document Type: Review

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