The physiological period length of the human circadian clock In Vivo is directly proportional to period in human fibroblasts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Pagani, Lucia ^a   Semenova, Ekaterina A ^b   Moriggi, Ermanno ^c   Revell, Victoria L ^d   Hack, Lisa M ^d   Lockley, Steven W ^e   Arendt, Josephine ^d   Skene, Debra J ^d   Meier, Fides ^a   Izakovic, Jan ^f   Wirz Justice, Anna ^a   Cajochen, Christian ^a   Sergeeva, Oksana J ^b   Cheresiz, Sergei V ^g   Danilenko, Konstantin V ^b   Eckert, Anne ^a   Brown, Steven A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ILLUMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REPORTER GENE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TIME; CYTOLOGY;

ALAUDIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS;

EID: 78149431714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013376     Document Type: Article

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