Dynamic Interactions Between Coupled Oscillators Within the Hamster Circadian Pacemaker

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-96

  Evans, Jennifer A ^a   Elliott, Jeffrey A ^b   Gorman, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian coupling; dim illumination; hamster; split rhythms

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RUNNING;

EID: 77249162772     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018088     Document Type: Article

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