Simulated natural day lengths synchronize seasonal rhythms of asynchronously born male Siberian hamsters

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Butler, Matthew P ^a   Turner, Kevin W ^a   Jin, Ho Park ^a,c   Butler, James P ^b   Trumbull, Justin J ^a   Dunn, Sean P ^a   Villa, Philip ^a   Zucker, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical day length; Interval timer; Phodopus sungorus; Puberty; Simulated natural photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY GROWTH; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; DELAYED PUBERTY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GROWTH; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEASONS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 34447648687     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00146.2007     Document Type: Article

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