Influence of temperature on the liver circadian clock in the ruin lizard Podarcis Sicula

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 578-584

  Malatesta, Manuela ^a   Frigato, Elena ^b   Baldelli, Beatrice ^c   Battistelli, Serafina ^c   Foà, Augusto ^b   Bertolucci, Cristiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clock; Electron microscopy; Hypothermia; period 2; Peripheral circadian oscillators

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CELLULAR COMPARTMENTS; CIRCADIAN CLOCK; CLOCK GENES; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; DAILY ACTIVITY PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPOSED TO; PERIOD 2; PERIPHERAL CIRCADIAN OSCILLATOR;

CLOCKS;

MESSENGER RNA; PER2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIBERNATION; HYPOTHERMIA; LIVER; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VERTEBRATE; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; PODARCIS SICULA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34249949910     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20437     Document Type: Article

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