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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Pages (from-to) | 7606 - 7622 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
Volume | 284 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Mar 2009 |