Dark-phase light contamination disrupts circadian rhythms in plasma measures of endocrine physiology and metabolism in rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 348-356

  Dauchy, Robert T ^a   Dauchy, Erin M ^a   Tirrell, Robert P ^b   Hill, Cody R ^a   Davidson, Leslie K ^b   Greene, Michael W ^b   Tirrell, Paul C ^b   Wu, Jinghai ^b   Sauer, Leonard A ^b   Blask, David E ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BASSETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; LIPID; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIETARY INTAKE; DIURNAL ANIMAL; FLUID INTAKE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LACTIC ACID; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78649400502     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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