In Vivo Monitoring of Circadian Timing in Freely Moving Mice

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 381-385

  Nakamura, Wataru ^a   Yamazaki, Shin ^b   Nakamura, Takahiro J ^c   Shirakawa, Tetsuo ^d   Block, Gene D ^c   Takumi, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MOLNEURO

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 40149097601     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.024     Document Type: Article

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