Photoreceptive oscillators within neurons of the premammillary nucleus (PMM) and seasonal reproduction in temperate zone birds

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-155

  Kosonsiriluk, Sunantha ^a   Mauro, Laura J ^a   Chaiworakul, Voravasa ^a   Chaiseha, Yupaporn ^b   El Halawani, Mohamed E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Birds; Clock genes; Dopamine; Melanopsin; Melatonin; Seasonal reproduction

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPENDYMA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT; LIOTHYRONINE SYNTHESIS; MAMMILLARY BODY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PREMAMMILLARY BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANYCYTE;

BIRDS; CLOCK GENES; DOPAMINE; MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN; SEASONAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLOCK PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; MELATONIN; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; ROD OPSINS; SEASONS;

EID: 84882815828     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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