Rod photoreceptors drive circadian photoentrainment across a wide range of light intensities

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1107-1112

  Altimus, Cara M ^a   Güler, Ali D ^a   Alam, Nazia M ^b   Arman, A Cyrus ^c   Prusky, Glen T ^b   Sampath, Alapakkam P ^c   Hattar, Samer ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; VISION; ANIMAL; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; TRANSDUCIN; VISUAL PERCEPTION; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES;

CNGA3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; GNAT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; MELANOPSIN; SCOTOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77956183961     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2617     Document Type: Article

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