The proportion of light-responsive neurons determines the limit cycle properties of the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-27

  Gu, Changgui ^a   Ramkisoensing, Ashna ^a   Liu, Zonghua ^b   Meijer, Johanna H ^a   Rohling, Jos H T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

circadian; entrainment; modeling; phase resetting; photoperiod; simulation; synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CIRCADIAN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DARKNESS; ENTRAINMENT; LIGHT; MODEL; NERVE CELL; PHASE RESETTING; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIMULATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME;

CIRCADIAN; ENTRAINMENT; MODELING; PHASE RESETTING; PHOTOPERIOD; SIMULATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPERIOD; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893544088     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730413516752     Document Type: Article

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