Unexpected c-fos gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of mice entrained to a skeleton photoperiod.

abstract：:The circadian clock plays an important role in adaptation in time and space by synchronizing changes in physiological, developmental, and behavioral traits of organisms with daily and seasonal changes in their environment. We have studied some features of the circadian activity and clock organization in a northern Dro...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kauranen H,Menegazzi P,Costa R,Helfrich-Förster C,Kankainen A,Hoikkala A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daylight saving time (DST) is a source of circadian disruption impinging on millions of people every year. Our aim was to assess modifications, if any, in the number, type, and outcome of Accident & Emergency (A&E) visits/return visits over the DST months. The study included 366,527 visits and 84,380 return visits to ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Ferrazzi E,Romualdi C,Ocello M,Frighetto G,Turco M,Vigolo S,Fabris F,Angeli P,Vettore G,Costa R,Montagnese S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to electric light might have shifted the ancestral timing and duration of human sleep. To test this hypothesis, we studied two communities of the historically hunter-gatherer indigenous Toba/Qom in the Argentinean Chaco. These communities share the same ethnic and sociocultural background, but one has free acce...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： de la Iglesia HO,Fernández-Duque E,Golombek DA,Lanza N,Duffy JF,Czeisler CA,Valeggia CR

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:There is little evidence for the involvement of microRNAs (miRs) in the regulation of circadian rhythms, despite the potential relevance of these elements in the posttranscriptional regulation of the clock machinery. The present work aimed to identify miRs targeting circadian genes through a predictive analysis of con...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Figueredo Dde S,Barbosa MR,Gitaí DL,de Andrade TG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks drive daily rhythms of physiology and behavior in multiple organisms and synchronize these rhythms to environmental cycles of light and temperature. The basic mechanism of the clock consists of a transcription-translation feedback loop, in which key clock proteins negatively regulate their own transcr...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Shakhmantsir I,Sehgal A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synchronizing stimulus, its transduction site, and the afferent pathways responsible for feeding entrainment remain unknown. In fish, the role of the diet in the development of feeding anticipatory activity (FAA) is not well understood and fundamental questions on the mechanisms of feeding entrainment, such as the...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Sánchez-Vázquez FJ,Aranda A,Madrid JA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreception in the mammalian retina is not restricted to rods and cones but extends to a small number of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells expressing the photopigment melanopsin. These mRGCs are especially important contributors to circadian entrainment, the pupil light reflex, and other so-called...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Enezi Ja,Revell V,Brown T,Wynne J,Schlangen L,Lucas R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopsin 7 ( Rh7), a new invertebrate Rhodopsin gene, was discovered in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster in 2000, but its function has remained elusive. We generated an Rh7 null mutant ( Rh70) by P element-mediated mutagenesis and found that an absence of Rh7 had significant effects on fly activity patterns duri...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kistenpfennig C,Grebler R,Ogueta M,Hermann-Luibl C,Schlichting M,Stanewsky R,Senthilan PR,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity patterns are the product of interactions between an internal circadian clock and direct responses to photic and nonphotic features of the environment that are said to "mask" the influence of that clock. Evolutionary transitions between nocturnality and diurnality involve changes in mechanisms underlying both ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Cohen R,Smale L,Kronfeld-Schor N

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:In mammals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the central pacemaker organizing circadian rhythms of behavior and physiology. At the cellular level, the mammalian clock consists of autoregulatory feedback loops involving a set of "clock genes," including the Cryptochrome (Cry) genes, Cry1 and Cry2. Experimental evid...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Evans JA,Pan H,Liu AC,Welsh DK

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:An outstanding unresolved issue in chronobiology is how the level of locomotor activity influences length of the free-running, endogenous circadian period (tau). To address this issue, the authors studied a novel model, 4 replicate lines of laboratory house mice (Mus domesticus) that had been selectively bred for high...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Koteja P,Swallow JG,Carter PA,Garland T Jr

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock represents an anticipatory mechanism, well preserved in evolution. It has a critical impact on most aspects of the physiology of light-sensitive organisms. These rhythmic processes are governed by environmental cues (fluctuations in light intensity and temperature), an internal circadian timing sys...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Philippe J,Dibner C

更新日期：2015-04-01 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 frequency demultiplication hypothesis (FDH) posits that circannual rhythms are generated from circadian cycles by frequency transformation to the lower-frequency rhythm. To test the FDH, we determined the periods of the circannual body mass and estrous cycles of golden-mantled ground squirrels with circadian locom...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Carmichael MS,Zucker I

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hematologic system performs a number of essential functions, including oxygen transport, the execution of the immune response against tumor cells and invading pathogens, and hemostasis (blood clotting). These roles are performed by erythrocytes (red blood cells), leukocytes (white blood cells), and thrombocytes (p...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Pritchett D,Reddy AB

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morningness and eveningness preference, an endogenous component of the circadian clock, is characterized by an interindividual difference in circadian phase and requires of humans a specific timing of behavior. The biological rhythms of morning and evening types are consequently phase shifted with fixed socioeconomic ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Taillard J,Philip P,Chastang JF,Diefenbach K,Bioulac B

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Most visual system functions, such as opsin gene expression, retinal neural transmission, light perception, and visual sensitivity, display robust day-night rhythms. The rhythms persist in constant lighting conditions, suggesting the involvement of endogenous circadian clocks. While the circadian pacemakers that contr...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Li L

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Since the advent of techniques to investigate gene expression on a large scale, numerous circadian rhythms in mRNA amount have been reported. These rhythms generally differ in amplitude and phase. The authors investigated how far a parameter not regulated by the circadian clock can influence the phase of a rhythm in R...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Jacobshagen S,Kessler B,Rinehart CA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intertidal species have both circadian and circatidal clocks. Although the behavioral evidence for these oscillators is more than 5 decades old, virtually nothing is known about their molecular clockwork. Pigment-dispersing hormones (PDHs) were originally described in crustaceans. Their insect homologs, pigment-disper...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Beckwith EJ,Lelito KR,Hsu YW,Medina BM,Shafer O,Ceriani MF,de la Iglesia HO

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many animals, the circadian clock plays a role in adapting to the coming season by measuring day length. The mechanism for measuring day length and its neuronal circuits remains elusive, however. Under laboratory conditions, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, displays 2 activity peaks: one in the morning and o...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kistenpfennig C,Nakayama M,Nihara R,Tomioka K,Helfrich-Förster C,Yoshii T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social jetlag represents the discrepancy between circadian and social clocks, which is measured as the difference in hours in midpoint of sleep between work days and free days. Previous studies have shown social jetlag to be associated with body mass index (BMI), glycated hemoglobin levels, heart rate, depressive symp...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Rutters F,Lemmens SG,Adam TC,Bremmer MA,Elders PJ,Nijpels G,Dekker JM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DEC1 and DEC2-basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors-exhibit a circadian expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and other peripheral tissues and seem to play roles in regulating the mammalian circadian rhythm by suppressing the CLOCK/BMAL1-activated promoters of Per1, Dec1, and Dec2. The authors present data ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Noshiro M,Furukawa M,Honma S,Kawamoto T,Hamada T,Honma K,Kato Y

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00