Light stimulates the mouse adrenal through a retinohypothalamic pathway independent of an effect on the clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kiessling, Silke ^a,b   Sollars, Patricia J ^a   Pickard, Gary E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PER1 GENE; PER2 GENE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PNMT GENE; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINOHYPOTHALAMIC SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TH GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RETINA; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84899105315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092959     Document Type: Article

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