Abstract
The pineal gland plays an essential role in vertebrate chronobiology by converting time into a hormonal signal, melatonin, which is always elevated at night. Here we have analyzed the rodent pineal transcriptome using Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology to obtain a more complete description of pineal cell biology. The effort revealed that 604 genes (1,268 probe sets) with Entrez Gene identifiers are differentially expressed greater than 2-fold between midnight and mid-day (false discovery rate
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
Volume | 284 |
Issue number | 12 |
Pages (from-to) | 7606-22 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISSN | 0021-9258 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Animals
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cyclic AMP
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Norepinephrine
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Organ Specificity
- Pineal Gland
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Retina