Glucocorticoid regulation of clock gene expression in the mammalian limbic forebrain

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-175

  Segall, Lauren A ^a   Amir, Shimon ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central nucleus of the amygdala; Circadian rhythms; Corticosterone; Oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; PER2; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMMALS; PROSENCEPHALON;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956958779     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-010-9341-1     Document Type: Review

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