Daily and photoperiodic melatonin binding changes in the suprachiasmatic nuclei, paraventricular thalamic nuclei, and pars tuberalis of the female Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus).

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 light preferences of fruit flies were tested by 2 different means. First, flies were allowed to choose between different illuminations, and their favorite resting, grooming, and feeding places were determined with an infrared-sensitive camera. Second, the activity levels of the animals during their main daily acti...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Rieger D,Fraunholz C,Popp J,Bichler D,Dittmann R,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rhythm mutant of Drosophila melanogaster was induced by chemical mutagenesis and isolated by testing for locomotor activity rhythms, which in the new variant had periods of approximately 16 hr. The sex-linked mutation responsible for this ultrashort period causes 20-hr rhythms when heterozygous with a normal X. This...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Konopka RJ,Hamblen-Coyle MJ,Jamison CF,Hall JC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SCN has long had organizational schemas imposed on it. In most, the SCN is dichotomized, with one region typically associated with the presence of vasopressin cells and the other associated with cells containing vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and certain afferent terminal fields. If assumed to be accurate, the ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Morin LP

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity during pregnancy causes numerous maternal and fetal health complications, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity has previously been linked to disruption of the intrinsic adipose clock gene network that is crucial for normal metabolic function. This adipose clock al...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Crew RC,Mark PJ,Waddell BJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular spike activity from three different types of visual interneurons found in the optic lobe of the giant cockroach Blaberus giganteus was recorded. The spike rate of all three types of neurons fluctuated in a circadian manner in constant darkness (DD). Two types, so-called "on" neurons (ON1 and ON2), respon...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Bult R,Mastebroek HA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian endogenous circadian clock, the suprachiasmatic nuclei, receives environmental inputs, namely the light-dark cycle, through photopigments located in the eye and from melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells. The authors investigated the influence of light wavelength and intensity on the synchronizati...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Perret M,Gomez D,Barbosa A,Aujard F,Théry M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many mammalian cell types show daily rhythms in gene expression driven by a circadian pacemaker. For example, cultured astrocytes display circadian rhythms in Period1 and Period2 expression. It is not known, however, how or which intercellular factors synchronize and sustain rhythmicity in astrocytes. Because astrocyt...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Marpegan L,Krall TJ,Herzog ED

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the southern Iberian Peninsula, the seasonal life history of the large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, comprises 2 different photoperiodically induced developmental arrests: a hibernation diapause at photophases < 11 h and an estivation diapause at photophases > 14 h. At intermediate photophases (12 h to 13 h), ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Spieth HR,Xue F,Strau K

更新日期：2004-12-01 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 circadian pacemaker of the SCN is a heterogeneous structure containing many single-cell oscillators that display phase differences in gene expression and electrical activity rhythms. Thus far, it is unknown how single neurons contribute to the population signal measured from the SCN. The authors used single-unit e...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Rohling J,Wolters L,Meijer JH

更新日期：2006-08-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Drosophila littoralis is a latitudinally widespread European species of the Drosophila virilis group. The species has ample genetic variation in photoperiodism (adult diapause) and circadian rhythmicity (pupal eclosion rhythm), with adaptive latitudinal clines in both of them. The possible common genetic basis between...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Lankinen P,Forsman P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether decreased day lengths affect reproduction or the immune system in inbred mice. Irrespective of a nocturnal pineal melatonin rise, the signal for day length information, body and testis weights were the same in various strains 8 weeks after transfer from long to short ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Yellon SM,Tran LT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal changes in numerous aspects of mammalian immune function arise as a result of the annual variation in environmental day length (photoperiod), but it is not known if absolute photoperiod or relative change in photoperiod drives these changes. This experiment tested the hypothesis that an individual's history o...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Prendergast BJ,Pyter LM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the retinal mechanisms in mammalian photoentrainment will greatly facilitate optimization of the wavelength, intensity, and duration of phototherapeutic treatments designed to phase shift endogenous biological rhythms. A small population of widely dispersed retinal ganglion cells projecting to the ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Rollag MD,Berson DM,Provencio I

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic treatment of hamsters with triazolam (TRZ) or novel wheel (NW) access will yield PRCs similar to those for neuropeptide Y. Both TRZ and NW access require an intact intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) to modulate circadian rhythm phase. It is commonly suggested that both stimulus types influence rhythm phase respo...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Meyer-Bernstein EL,Morin LP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian circadian clock is known to be entrained by both a daily light-dark cycle and daily feeding cycle. However, the mechanisms of feeding-induced entrainment are not as fully understood as those of light entrainment. To elucidate the first step of entrainment of the liver clock, we identified the circadian c...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Tahara Y,Otsuka M,Fuse Y,Hirao A,Shibata S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single light episode during the first larval stage can set the phase of adult Drosophila activity rhythms, showing that a light-sensitive circadian clock is functional in larvae and is capable of keeping time throughout development. These behavioral data are supported by the finding that neurons expressing clock pro...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Malpel S,Klarsfeld A,Rouyer F

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian system in higher organisms temporally orchestrates rhythmic changes in a vast number of genes and gene products in different organs. Complex interactions between these components, both within and among cells, ultimately lead to rhythmic behavior and physiology. Identifying the plethora of circadian targe...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： De Haro L,Panda S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) drives and synchronizes daily rhythms at the cellular level via transcriptional-translational feedback loops comprising clock genes such as Bmal1 and Period (Per). Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), a serine/threonine kinase, phosphorylates at least 5 core clock proteins and shows diu...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Besing RC,Paul JR,Hablitz LM,Rogers CO,Johnson RL,Young ME,Gamble KL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Casein kinase 1ε (CK1ε) performs key phosphorylation reactions in the circadian clock mechanism that determine period. We show that the central clock protein PERIOD2 (PER2) not only acts as a transcriptional repressor but also inhibits the autoinactivation of CK1ε, thereby promoting CK1ε activity. Moreover, PER2 recip...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Qin X,Mori T,Zhang Y,Johnson CH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock controls 24-h biological rhythms in our body, influencing many time-related activities such as sleep and wake. The simplest circadian clock is found in cyanobacteria, with the proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC generating a self-sustained circadian oscillation of KaiC phosphorylation and dephosphorylati...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Jeong YM,Dias C,Diekman C,Brochon H,Kim P,Kaur M,Kim YS,Jang HI,Kim YI

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although overt diurnal rhythms of behavior do not begin until well after birth, molecular studies suggest that the circadian clock may begin much earlier at a cellular level: mouse embryonic fibroblasts, for example, already possess robust clocks. By multiple criteria, we found no circadian clock present in mouse embr...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kowalska E,Moriggi E,Bauer C,Dibner C,Brown SA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entrainability of the circadian rhythm of mosquito flight and locomotor activity was investigated by giving a 24-hr temperature cycle (28 degrees C for 16 hr, 23 degrees C for 8 hr) to the free-running rhythm or by shifting the temperature cycle. The phase angle difference between the entrained rhythm and the temperat...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Chiba Y,Uki M,Kawasaki Y,Matsumoto A,Tomioka K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00