Precise annual changes in the numbers of "synaptic" ribbons and spherules in the rat pineal gland.

abstract：:Siberian hamsters transferred from a long (16 h light/day [16 L]) to an intermediate (13.5 L) day length (DL) undergo testicular regression within 2 months followed approximately 2 months later by "spontaneous" testicular recrudescence. Recovery of gonadal function after prolonged exposure to intermediate DLs is thoug...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Kauffman AS,Zucker I

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:Little is known about the differences in the neural substrates of circadian rhythms that are responsible for the maintenance of differences between diurnal and nocturnal patterns of activity in mammals. In both groups of animals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) functions as the principal circadian pacemaker, and sur...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Nunez AA,Bult A,McElhinny TL,Smale L

更新日期：1999-08-01 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

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：: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 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：:Austrovenus stutchburyi is an intertidal, burrowing, filter-feeding bivalve. It exhibits a strong, approximately tidal pattern in the time of gaping of its valves when in constant laboratory conditions. Individuals that have been held in laboratory conditions long enough to lose their overt gaping pattern will respond...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Williams BG,Pilditch CA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using quantitative autoradiography, 2-(125)I-melatonin binding was investigated throughout the light:dark cycle in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), paraventricular nuclei (PVT), and pars tuberalis (PT) of adult female Siberian hamsters kept for 10 weeks in either long or short photoperiods (LP or SP, respectively). P...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Recio J,Pévet P,Vivien-Roels B,Míguez JM,Masson-Pévet M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinohypothalamic tract (RHT), a monosynaptic retinal projection to the SCN, is the major path by which light entrains the circadian system to the external photoperiod. The circadian system of rodents effectively integrates or counts photons, and the magnitude of the rhythm phase response is proportional to the t...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Muscat L,Morin LP

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Honey bee workers care for ("nurse") the brood around the clock without circadian rhythmicity, but then they forage outside with strong circadian rhythms and a consolidated nightly rest. This chronobiological plasticity is associated with variation in the expression of the canonical "clock genes" that regulate the cir...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Rodriguez-Zas SL,Southey BR,Shemesh Y,Rubin EB,Cohen M,Robinson GE,Bloch G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the intergeniculate leaflet of the thalamus (IGL) in photoperiod responsiveness was examined in a laboratory-selected line of photoperiod nonresponsive (NR) Siberian hamsters. NR hamsters fail to exhibit typical winter-type responses (i.e., gonadal regression and development of winter-type pelage) when exp...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Freeman DA,Teubner BJ,Goldman BD

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated a clear link between late chronotype and depression. The vulnerability factors underpinning this link, however, are unclear. Here the relationship between two specific emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, and chronotype was investigated usi...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Watts AL,Norbury R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical power spectrum, computed in the frequency domain, outranks traditionally used periodograms derived in the time domain (such as the chi2 periodogram) regarding the search for biological rhythms. Unfortunately, classical power spectral analysis is not possible with unequally spaced data (e.g., time series ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Van Dongen HP,Olofsen E,VanHartevelt JH,Kruyt EW

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:In isolated slices of hypothalamus, suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) neurons were recorded intracellularly. Blockade of Ca++ channels increased spike duration, eliminating an early component of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) that followed evoked spikes. The duration and reversal potential of AHPs were, however, unaffec...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Thomson AM,West DC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian rhythm of eclosion activity and its pacemaker were analyzed in a series of latitudinal races of Drosophila auraria ranging from 34.2 degrees to 42.9 degrees N in Japan. The phase of the rhythm (psi EL) to the daily photoperiod (PP) changes as daylength is increased, and the slope of psi EL (PP) changes w...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Takamura T

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:At least two major physiological systems are involved in the adaptation of the organism to environmental challenges: the circadian system and the stress reaction. This study addressed the possibility that interindividual differences in stress sensitivity and in the functioning of the circadian system are related. At 2...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Weibel L,Maccari S,Van Reeth O

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral subparaventricular zone (vSPVZ) receives direct retinal input and influences the daily patterning of activity in rodents, making it a likely candidate for the mediation of acute behavioral responses to light (i.e., masking). We performed chemical lesions aimed at the vSPVZ of diurnal grass rats (Arvicanthi...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Gall AJ,Shuboni DD,Yan L,Nunez AA,Smale L

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in neuronal firing rate was investigated in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of ground squirrels and rats in vitro. A reduction in SCN temperature from 37 to 25 degrees C reduced peak firing rates by > 70% in rats but only by approximately 21% in squirrels; trough firing ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Ruby NF,Heller HC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intricate transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL) governs cellular circadian rhythms in mammals. Here, we report that the zinc finger transcription factor Krüppel-like factor 9 (KLF9) is regulated by this TTFL, it associates in chromatin at the core circadian clock and clock-output genes, and it acts to modu...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Knoedler JR,Ávila-Mendoza J,Subramani A,Denver RJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:A 12-hr dark period, at a temperature high enough to permit time measurement to occur, is necessary for maximal induction of larval diapause in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis. In the present study, induction of diapause only occurred in a periodic environment. This was in the form of certain (1) light-dar...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Skopik SD,Cain W,Patel NG,Newswanger DL

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila clock relies on transcriptional feedback loops that generate daily oscillations of the clock gene expression at mRNA and protein levels. In the evening, the CLOCK (CLK) and CYCLE (CYC) basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) PAS-domain transcription factors activate the expression of the period (per) and timeless...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Richier B,Michard-Vanhée C,Lamouroux A,Papin C,Rouyer F

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:House sparrows (Passer domesticus) whose circadian rhythms of locomotor activity and feeding had been abolished by pinealectomy were held in constant dim light and periodically exposed to melatonin in the drinking water. By alternating 8 h of melatonin water with variable phases of tap water, rhythms with periods (T) ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Heigl S,Gwinner E

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Various aspects of mammalian endocrine physiology show a time-of-day variation with a period of 24 h, which represents an adaptation to the daily environmental fluctuations resulting from the rotation of the earth. These 24-h rhythms in hormone abundance and consequently hormone function may rely on rhythmic signals p...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Lin XW,Blum ID,Storch KF

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00