Melanopsin Regulates Both Sleep-Promoting and Arousal-Promoting Responses to Light

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Pilorz, Violetta ^a   Tam, Shu K E ^a   Hughes, Steven ^a   Pothecary, Carina A ^a   Jagannath, Aarti ^a   Hankins, Mark W ^a   Bannerman, David M ^a   Lightman, Stafford L ^b   Vyazovskiy, Vladyslav V ^a   Nolan, Patrick M ^c   Foster, Russell G ^a   Peirson, Stuart N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MELANOPSIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; PER1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PER2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN C FOS; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP PATTERN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SLEEP; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTOR; VERTEBRATE PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CORTICOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; SLEEP; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84979054532     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002482     Document Type: Article

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