The acute effects of light on murine sleep during the dark phase: Importance of melanopsin for maintenance of light-induced sleep

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1727-1736

  Muindi, Fanuel ^a   Zeitzer, Jamie M ^a,b   Colas, Damien ^a   Heller, H Craig ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Locomotion; Photoreception; SCN; Sensory processing

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REM SLEEP; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SLEEP; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTOPERIOD; REACTION TIME; ROD OPSINS; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84878474337     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12189     Document Type: Article

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