Clock mechanisms for seasonal adaptation: Morning and evening oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-90

  Honma, Sato ^a   Inagaki, Natsuko ^a   Ono, Daisuke ^a   Yoshikawa, Tomoko ^a   Hashimoto, Satoko ^a   Honma, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Clock gene; Luciferase reporter; Multioscillator pacemaker; Photoperiod; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MELATONIN; PER1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; ILLUMINATION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP TIME; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 42549097386     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2008.00347.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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