Circadian Clock Gene Per2 Is Not Necessary for the Photoperiodic Response in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ikegami, Keisuke ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CRYPTOCHROME 1; CRYPTOCHROME 2; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRY1 GENE; CRY2 GENE; DEIODINASE TYPE 2 GENE; DEIODINASE TYPE 3 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PER1 GENE; PER2 GENE; PINEAL BODY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE SUBUNIT BETA GENE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PINEAL GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, INTERMEDIATE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84874687029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058482     Document Type: Article

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