Melatonin administered during the fetal stage affects circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus but not in the liver

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-144

  Houdek, Pavel ^a   Polidarová, Lenka ^a   Nováková, Marta ^a   Matějů, Kristýna ^a   Kubík, Štěpán ^a   Sumová, Alena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Circadian system; Clock gene; Melatonin; Ontogenesis; Suprachiasmatic nuclei

Indexed keywords

AVP PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; MELATONIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR1D1; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BMAL1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGIPRESSIN; BMAL1 PROTEIN, RAT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; NR1D1 PROTEIN, RAT; PER1 PROTEIN, RAT; PER2 PROTEIN, RAT; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARNTL;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONTOGENY; PINEALECTOMY; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; ARNTL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIGHT; LIVER; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MELATONIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP D, MEMBER 1; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84920850250     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22213     Document Type: Article

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