Colour As a Signal for Entraining the Mammalian Circadian Clock

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Walmsley, Lauren ^a   Hanna, Lydia ^a   Mouland, Josh ^a   Martial, Franck ^a   West, Alexander ^a   Smedley, Andrew R ^a   Bechtold, David A ^a   Webb, Ann R ^a   Lucas, Robert J ^a   Brown, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TWILIGHT; ANIMAL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

MELANOPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; COLOR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROD OPSINS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84929493851     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002127     Document Type: Article

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