Minireview: The neuroendocrinology of the suprachiasmatic nucleus as a conductor of body time in mammals

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5640-5647

  Karatsoreos, Ilia N ^a   Silver, Rae ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HORMONE RELEASE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ESTROGENS; GONADAL HORMONES; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 36349013781     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-1083     Document Type: Short Survey

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