Constructing the suprachiasmatic nucleus: A watchmaker's perspective on the central clockworks

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages 1-21

  Bedont, Joseph L ^a   Blackshaw, Seth ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon pathfinding; Cell fate; Chronotype; Circadian; Clock genes; Developmental neuroscience; Suprachiasmatic; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN P10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SECRETION (PROCESS); SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84930506430     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00074     Document Type: Review

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