Efficacy of melatonin as a sleep-promoting agent.

abstract：:The authors sought to investigate the role of phytochromes A and B (phyA and phyB) and cryptochromes 1 and 2 (cryl and cry2) in the synchronization of the leaf position rhythm in Arabidopsis thaliana. The seedlings were transferred from white light-dark cycles to free-running conditions with or without exposure to a l...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Yanovsky MJ,Mazzella MA,Whitelam GC,Casal JJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the cellular elements of the SCN are synchronized to each other is not well understood. We explore circadian oscillations manifest at the level of the cell, the tissue, and the whole animal to better understand intra-SCN synchrony and master clock function of the nucleus. At each level of analysis, responses to va...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Butler MP,Silver R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report that popliteal illumination shifted the circadian rhythms of body temperature and melatonin challenged the longstanding belief that light phase-shifting the circadian system in mammals is mediated only through the retina. The authors tested effects of popliteal illumination and illumination provided th...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Jean-Louis G,Kripke DF,Cole RJ,Elliot JA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cyclic biological processes are under control of a circadian molecular timing system that synchronizes these phenomena to the 24-h day. One generic property of circadian-controlled processes is that they operate within a specific temperature range, below which the manifestation of rhythm ceases. Little is known a...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Maguire SE,Schmidt PS,Sehgal A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large repertoire of circadian rhythms in diverse organisms depends on oscillating central clock genes, input pathways for entrainment, and output pathways for controlling rhythmic behaviors. Stress-activated p38 MAP Kinases (p38K), although sparsely investigated in this context, show circadian rhythmicity in mamma...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Vrailas-Mortimer AD,Ryan SM,Avey MJ,Mortimer NT,Dowse H,Sanyal S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal expression pattern of the circadian clock gene period was compared between heads of the linden bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus , kept under diapause-promoting short days (SD) and diapause-preventing long days (LD) using a real-time PCR quantification. Diapause or reproduction was programmed by photoperiod during...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Dolezel D,Sauman I,Kost'ál V,Hodkova M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life in the Arctic presents organisms with multiple challenges, including extreme photic conditions, cold temperatures, and annual loss and daily movement of sea ice. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) evolved under these unique conditions, where they rely on ice to hunt their main prey, seals. However, very little is know...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Ware JV,Rode KD,Robbins CT,Leise T,Weil CR,Jansen HT

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pineal organ of the lizard Anolis carolinensis acts as a transducer of photoperiodic information, since light can affect the pineal melatonin rhythm (PMR). The synthesis and secretion of melatonin may be a major mechanism whereby a circadian pacemaker within the pineal can control circadian clocks located elsewher...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Underwood H,Calaban M

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost exclusively, photoperiodic insects respond to a given photoperiod in one of two ways: a "long-day" response or a "short-day" response. Intermediate responses occur only at a very restricted range of photoperiods (often less than 30 min) and are generally population phenomena rather than intermediate responses o...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Wassmer GT,Page TL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tau mutation in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) is phenotypically expressed in a period of the circadian rhythm of about 20 h in homozygotes (SS) and about 22 h in heterozygotes (S+). The authors investigate whether this well-defined model for variation in circadian period exhibits associated changes in ene...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Oklejewicz M,Hut RA,Daan S,Loudon AS,Stirland AJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of Syrian hamsters were exposed to LD cycles with twilight transitions and photoperiods simulating natural lighting conditions at the summer solstice (SS), equinox, and winter solstice (WS) at 41 degrees N and at the winter solstice at the Arctic Circle (WS 66 degrees N) but with daytime illuminance truncated a...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Boulos Z,Macchi MM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors analyzed the upstream regulatory region of purF, a gene that is expressed in a minority phase that peaks at dawn (class 2 circadian phasing) in Synechococcus elongatus, to determine whether specific cis elements are responsible for this characteristic expression pattern. Fusions of various promoter-bearing...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Min H,Liu Y,Johnson CH,Golden SS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian SCN contains a biological clock that drives remarkably precise circadian rhythms in vivo and in vitro. Recent advances have revealed molecular and cellular mechanisms required for the generation of these daily rhythms and their synchronization between SCN neurons and to the environmental light cycle. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Hastings MH,Herzog ED

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threads of evidence from recent experimentation in retinal morphology, neurochemistry, electrophysiology, and visual perception point toward rhythmic ocular processes that may be integral components of circadian entrainment in mammals. Components of retinal cell biology (rod outer-segment disk shedding, inner-segment ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Remé CE,Wirz-Justice A,Terman M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adjustment of hamsters to advanced light-dark (LD) cycles can be greatly accelerated by scheduling a single 3-hr bout of extra activity in a novel running wheel, starting about 7 hr before the time when the animals become active in the preceding LD cycle. The present experiments were designed to provide stronger e...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Mrosovsky N

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature compensation and period determination by casein kinase 1 (CK1) are conserved features of eukaryotic circadian rhythms, whereas the clock gene transcription factors that facilitate daily gene expression rhythms differ between phylogenetic kingdoms. Human red blood cells (RBCs) exhibit temperature-compensate...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Beale AD,Kruchek E,Kitcatt SJ,Henslee EA,Parry JSW,Braun G,Jabr R,von Schantz M,O'Neill JS,Labeed FH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of the fetal suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in arrhythmic SCN-lesioned rats can reinstate circadian drinking rhythms in 40% to 50% of the cases. In the current article, it was investigated whether the failure in the other rats could be due to the absence of a circadian rhythm in the grafted SCN, using a...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： van Esseveldt KE,van der Geest BA,Duindam H,Rietveld WJ,Boer GJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical isolation of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) within a hypothalamic island is reported to produce loss of circadian rhythmicity. The results have been interpreted to indicate that SCN efferents are necessary for the expression of circadian rhythms. It is not clear, however, whether the loss of circadian rhyth...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Hakim H,DeBernardo AP,Silver R

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Various inputs modulate pacemaker phase, including the serotonergic (5HTergic) input from the midbrain raphe. 5HT phase-advances the SCN pacemaker when applied during mid subjective day. In vitro studies indicate that 5HT advances the m...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Jovanovska A,Prosser RA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess binocular interactions and possible ocular dominance in entrainment of circadian rhythms, Syrian hamsters maintained in LL were subjected for several weeks to schedules of eye occlusion with opaque contact lenses. In separate groups, the opaque lens was inserted into the left or right eye for 12 h at the sam...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Park JH,Paul MJ,Butler MP,Zucker I

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 90% of neurons within the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) express γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Although GABA is primarily an inhibitory neurotransmitter, in vitro studies suggest that the activation of GABAA receptors (GABAAR) elicits excitation in the adult SCN. The ratio of excitatory to inhibitory responses to GA...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： McNeill JK 4th,Walton JC,Albers HE

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) exhibit changes in immune function following adaptation to short photoperiods, including a marked attenuation of energetically expensive thermoregulatory and behavioral responses to gram-negative bacterial infections. Whether this seasonal attenuation of the immune response is idi...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Baillie SR,Prendergast BJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian timing system has three principal elements: the retina, the intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) of the thalamus, and the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Since the human circadian timing system cannot be studied experimentally, we have used another primate, the macaque monkey, to help provide insight into the or...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Moore RY

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crustaceans have frequently been used to study the neuroethology of both agonistic behavior and circadian rhythms, but whether their highly stereotyped and quantifiable agonistic activity is controlled by circadian pacemakers has, so far, not been investigated. Isolated marbled crayfish (Procambarus spec.) displayed r...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Farca Luna AJ,Hurtado-Zavala JI,Reischig T,Heinrich R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The annual cycle of reproductive function in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) is driven by seasonal changes in daylength and consists of a 6-month period of photosensitivity, culminating in maximal gonadal development, followed by a 6-month period of photorefractoriness. If male starlings are held under a constant photope...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Dawson A,McNaughton FJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the extent to which photoperiodic fluctuations synchronize annual thyroid and gonadal rhythmicity in edible dormice. The effects of different daylength manipulations (LD 4:20, LD 6:18, LD 18:6, LD 20:4) were examined during the two critical ascending and regressive phases of the annual plasma testoster...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Jallageas M,Mas N,Nouguier-Soulé J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging alters numerous aspects of circadian biology, including the amplitude of rhythms generated by the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus, the site of the central circadian pacemaker in mammals, and the response of the pacemaker to environmental stimuli such as light. Although previous studies have desc...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kolker DE,Fukuyama H,Huang DS,Takahashi JS,Horton TH,Turek FW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice homozygous for a dominant-negative allele of the Clock gene (Clock (Δ19/Δ19)) have slightly but significantly decreased male fertility. The molecular mechanism for this reduction in fertility is unknown. In the present study, we used a small hairpin RNA (shRNA) strategy to specifically knock down the Clock gene e...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Liang X,Cheng S,Jiang X,He X,Wang Y,Jiang Z,Hou W,Li S,Liu Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testicular growth was monitored in male ferrets subjected to one of the following photoperiodic treatments begun at weaning (8 weeks of age): 8 hr light/day (short days), 18 hr light/day (long days), or short days followed by transition to long days at either 10, 12, or 14 weeks of age. Mean ages to achieve adult test...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Sisk CL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The cyanobacterial clock protein KaiC regulates the circadian cycle by exhibiting rhythms in transcription, translation, and phosphorylation. KaiC phosphorylation persists in circadian cycling even under transcription-less conditions and was reconstituted in vitro by incubating KaiC, KaiA, and KaiB. This pres...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Takigawa-Imamura H,Mochizuki A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00