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C L Ralph

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Phillips J, Harlow H, McArthur N, Ralph C
Comp Biochem Physiol A Comp Physiol . 1986 Jan; 85(3):477-81. PMID: 2878777
The epithalamus of embryonic, neonatal and adult nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) was examined for evidence of pineal-like tissue. The evagination of the diencephalic roof (the anlage of the epiphysis) was...
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Gettinger R, Ralph C
J Exp Zool . 1985 Jun; 234(3):335-40. PMID: 4056675
The influence of photoperiod on resting oxygen consumption and nonshivering thermogenesis of winter-acclimatized kangaroo rats was determined by exposing freshly captured animals to 10-week controlled photoperiod treatments. Three treatments were...
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Ralph C, Harlow H, Phillips J
Int J Biometeorol . 1982 Dec; 26(4):311-28. PMID: 7166441
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Harlow H, Phillips J, Ralph C
Physiol Behav . 1982 Aug; 29(2):307-13. PMID: 7146136
Circadian rhythms of body temperature, activity and oxygen consumption were recorded in the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, a mammal lacking a distinct pineal gland. The rhythms were entrained by light-dark...
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Harlow H, Phillips J, Ralph C
Gen Comp Endocrinol . 1981 Oct; 45(2):212-8. PMID: 7286636
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ROTH J, Gern W, Roth E, Ralph C, Jacobson E
Science . 1980 Oct; 210(4469):548-50. PMID: 7423204
All living and most fossil representatives of the reptilian subclass Archosauria lack pineal bodies. Arrhythmic, low-level, nonpineal melatonin is present, however, in the blood of Alligator mississippiensis. Although pineal bodies...
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Firth B, Ralph C, Boardman T
Nature . 1980 Jun; 285(5764):399-400. PMID: 7383158
The pineal complex of lizards is comprised of an extracranial photoreceptive structure known as the parietal eye, and an intracranial pineal organ which is homologous to the pineal gland of...
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Owens D, Gern W, Ralph C
Gen Comp Endocrinol . 1980 Feb; 40(2):180-7. PMID: 7189168
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Gern W, Ralph C
Science . 1979 Apr; 204(4389):183-4. PMID: 432640
Melatonin fulfills many of the criteria for classification as a hormone. Until recently it was considered to be elaborated exclusively by pineal organs. Melatonin synthesis by other tissues has been...