Djungarian hamsters: A species with a labile circadian pacemaker? Arrhythmicity under a light-dark cycle induced by short light pulses

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 248-258

  Steinlechner, Stephan ^a   Stieglitz, Ariane ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arrhythmicity; Coupling; Evening morning oscillators; Light pulse; Phase response curve; Phodopus sungorus

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PHODOPUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; HAMSTER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPERIOD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85047687406     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074873040201700308     Document Type: Article

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