Linking neural activity and molecular oscillations in the SCN

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 553-569

  Colwell, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CYCLIC AMP; ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHLORIDE PUMP; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 80052970658     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3086     Document Type: Review

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