Minireview: Entrainment of the suprachiasmatic clockwork in diurnal and nocturnal mammals

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5648-5655

  Challet, Etienne ^a  

^a Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MELATONIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIURNAL ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIGHT; MAMMALS; MELATONIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEROTONIN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 36348977007     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0804     Document Type: Short Survey

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