Environmental perturbation of the Circadian clock disrupts pregnancy in the mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Summa, Keith C ^a   Vitaterna, Martha Hotz ^a   Turek, Fred W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84861385340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037668     Document Type: Article

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