Neural circuits underlying circadian oscillations in mammals: Clocks in a dish

Neuromethods

Volumn 73, Issue , 2012, Pages 183-210

  Nakamura, Takahiro J ^a   Michel, Stephan ^b   Block, Gene D ^c   Colwell, Christopher S ^c  

^a TEIKYO HEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological clock; Bioluminescence; Clock gene; Electrophysiology; Isolated hypothalamus; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRAIN SLICE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84867521425     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-020-5_5     Document Type: Article

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