Encephalic photoreceptor involvement in the entrainment and control of circadian activity of young american alligators

Pineal and retinal melatonin is involved

Pineal and retinal melatonin is involved in the control of circadian locomotor activity and body temperature rhythms in the pigeon

✍ Itsuki Oshima; Hideki Yamada; Maki Goto; Koji Sato; Shizufumi Ebihara 📂 Article 📅 1989 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 957 KB

Although pinealectomy or blinding resulted in loss of the clarity of the free-running rhythm of locomotor activity and body temperature and reduced the peak level of circulating melatonin rhythms to approximately a half in intact pigeons, neither pinealectomy nor blinding abolished any of these rhyt