Role of vasoactive intestinal peptide in seasonal encoding by the suprachiasmatic nucleus clock

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1466-1474

  Lucassen, Eliane A ^a   van Diepen, Hester C ^a   Houben, Thijs ^a   Michel, Stephan ^a   Colwell, Christopher S ^a,b   Meijer, Johanna H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; Electrophysiology; Mouse; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; GENOTYPE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84860695568     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08054.x     Document Type: Article

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