The circadian clock: A framework linking metabolism, epigenetics and neuronal function

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-75

  Masri, Selma ^a   Sassone Corsi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84871445347     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3393     Document Type: Review

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