Hypothalamic Ventricular Ependymal Thyroid Hormone Deiodinases Are an Important Element of Circannual Timing in the Siberian Hamster (Phodopus sungorus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Herwig, Annika ^a,c   de Vries, Emmely M ^a   Bolborea, Matei ^a,b   Wilson, Dana ^a   Mercer, Julian G ^a   Ebling, Francis J P ^b   Morgan, Peter J ^a   Barrett, Perry ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; NESTIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SOMATOSTATIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE DEIODINASE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL FUNCTION; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRBP1 GENE; DIO2 GENE; DIO3 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EPENDYMA; EPENDYMA CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GPR50 GENE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MC3R GENE; MCT8 GENE; NESTIN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRIF GENE; TSH R GENE; VIMENTIN GENE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; EPENDYMA; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; NESTIN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS, CELLULAR; SEASONS; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIMENTIN;

CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 84876339089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062003     Document Type: Article

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