VIP activates and couples clock cells. Focus on "disrupted neuronal activity rhythms in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-deficient mice"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1885-1886

  Welsh, David K ^a,b,c  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EDITORIAL; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 33947106434     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00063.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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