Network-mediated encoding of circadian time: The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) from genes to neurons to circuits, and back

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 15192-15199

  Brancaccio, Marco ^a   Enoki, Ryosuke ^b   Mazuski, Cristina N ^c   Jones, Jeff ^d   Evans, Jennifer A ^e   Azzi, Abdelhalim ^f  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONNECTOME; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIA CELL; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GLIA; MAMMAL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHOTOPERIOD; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME;

EID: 84909953483     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3233-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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