Peripheral circadian oscillators: Interesting mechanisms and powerful tools

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1129, Issue , 2008, Pages 358-370

  Cuninkova, Ludmila ^a   Brown, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronotype; Circadian; Clock; Genetics; Peripheral

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS;

EID: 47249105140     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1417.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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