- scotophobin
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Peptide (15 residues) isolated from brains of rats trained to avoid the dark that will transfer this aversion to naive animals.
Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.
scotophobin
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scotophobin — ☆ scotophobin [skōt′ə fō′bin ] n. 〚< Gr skotos, darkness (see SHADE) + phobos, a fear + IN1〛 a peptide produced in the brain of laboratory rats conditioned to have a fear of darkness: it is claimed that such a fear may be transferred to… … Universalium
scotophobin — ☆ scotophobin [skōt′ə fō′bin ] n. [< Gr skotos, darkness (see SHADE) + phobos, a fear + IN1] a peptide produced in the brain of laboratory rats conditioned to have a fear of darkness: it is claimed that such a fear may be transferred to… … English World dictionary
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Fear of the dark — For other uses, see Fear of the dark (disambiguation). The fear of the dark is a common fear among children and to a varying degree is observed for adults. Fear of the dark is usually not fear of the darkness itself, but fear of possible or… … Wikipedia
Nictofobia — La nictofobia (proveniente del griegos nyx: noche y fobos: miedo)[1] es una fobia caracterizada por un miedo irracional a la noche o a la oscuridad. Es generada por una percepción distorsionada del cerebro de lo que podría pasar en medio de la… … Wikipedia Español
scotophobic — See scotophobin. * * * … Universalium
scotopia — [skə tō′pē ə] n. [ModL < Gr skotos (see SCOTOPHOBIN) + OPIA] the normal visual perception or vision in dim light or twilight, or at night following dark adaptation, in which the light intensity fails to activate the retinal cones: cf. PHOTOPIA … English World dictionary
sco|to|pho|bic — «SKOH tuh FOH bihk, SKOT uh », adjective. 1. of or having to do with scotophobin: »The scotophobic effect seems to be very specific for this structure... Very probably some rigorous stereospecificity is involved in the scotophobic mechanism (New… … Useful english dictionary
