The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1068-1073

  Lupi, Daniela ^a   Oster, Henrik ^a,b   Thompson, Stewart ^a,c   Foster, Russell G ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; GALANIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; SLEEP;

EID: 50249186338     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2179     Document Type: Article

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