In Vivo Monitoring of Multi-Unit Neural Activity in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Reveals Robust Circadian Rhythms in Period1-/- Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Takasu, Nana N ^a   Pendergast, Julie S ^b   Olivas, Cathya S ^b   Yamazaki, Shin ^b   Nakamura, Wataru ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PER1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENUCLEATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOREACTIVITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84878039907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064333     Document Type: Article

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