Intergeniculate leaflets lesion delays but does not prevent the integration of photoperiodic change by the suprachiasmatic nuclei. Academic Article

abstract

• The duration of the photosensitive phase of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), as revealed by light-induced Fos protein expression, depends on the photoperiod and is tied to the length of the night. We show here in Syrian hamsters that after a transfer from long to short photoperiod, lengthening of the photosensitive phase of the SCN is significantly delayed but not abolished when the intergeniculate leaflets (IGL) are lesioned. Thus IGL modulate the integration by the SCN of a photoperiodic change.

authors

• Menet, Jerome

published proceedings

• Brain Res

author list (cited authors)

• Menet, J., Vuillez, P., Jacob, N., & Pvet, P.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• Menet, J||Vuillez, P||Jacob, N||Pévet, P

publication date

• January 2001

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• BRAIN RESEARCH  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Axotomy
• Cell Count
• Circadian Rhythm
• Cricetinae
• Down-Regulation
• Geniculate Bodies
• Immunohistochemistry
• Male
• Neurons
• Neuropeptide Y
• Organ Size
• Photic Stimulation
• Photoperiod
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins C-fos
• Seasons
• Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
• Testis
• Visual Pathways

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02518-5

start page

• 176

end page

• 179

volume

• 906

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02518-5