Regulation of circadian and acute activity levels by the murine suprachiasmatic nuclei

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Houben, Thijs ^a   Coomans, Claudia P ^a   Meijer, Johanna H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84907833292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110172     Document Type: Article

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