Diurnal expression of clock genes in pineal gland and brain and plasma levels of melatonin and cortisol in atlantic salmon parr and smolts

Chronobiology International

Volumn 27, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1697-1714

  Huang, Tien Sheng ^a   Ruoff, Peter ^b   Fjelldal, Per G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Brain; Clock gene; Cortisol; Melatonin; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CRYPTOCHROME; HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; GENETICS; GILL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK PROTEINS; CRYPTOCHROMES; GILLS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER; MELATONIN; PHYLOGENY; PINEAL GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMO SALAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

SALMO SALAR; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 78049287760     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2010.514630     Document Type: Article

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