Essential and expendable features of the circadian timekeeping mechanism

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 686-692

  Hardin, Paul E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; MESSENGER RNA;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MAMMAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33751250489     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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