Pineal and gonadal influences on ultradian locomotor rhythms of male Siberian hamsters

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-64

  Prendergast, Brian J ^a   Cable, Erin J ^a   Cisse, Yasmine M ^a   Stevenson, Tyler J ^a   Zucker, Irving ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Castration; Circadian rhythms; Estradiol; Melatonin; Pinealectomy; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; MELATONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HORMONE RELEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TESTIS SIZE; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM; VAS DEFERENS;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; ESTRADIOL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORCHIECTOMY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84871935242     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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