Article
Circadian behavior and plasticity of light-induced c-fos expression in SCN of tau mutant hamsters.
Journal of biological rhythms - 1 Aug 1998
Shimomura K, Kornhauser J M, Wisor J P, Umezu T, Yamazaki S, Ihara N L, Takahashi J S, Menaker M
Abstract excerpt
In hamsters homozygous for the circadian clock mutation tau, the photic history dramatically affects the magnitude of light-induced circadian phase shifts. The maximum amplitude of phase shifts produced by 1-h light pulses presented at CT 14 was less than 2 h in animals that had been in DD for 2...
Topics
- Animals
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cricetinae
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Motor Activity
- Mutation
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Photic Stimulation
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
- Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
- tau Proteins
