Distributed forebrain sites mediate melatonin-induced short-day responses in Siberian hamsters

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3133-3140

  Leitner, Claudia ^a   Bartness, Timothy J ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; FOOD INTAKE; FOREBRAIN; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WINTER; ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; METABOLISM; PHODOPUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; EATING; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MELATONIN; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; PHODOPUS; PROSENCEPHALON; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 77954566675     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0002     Document Type: Article

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