Modeling interindividual differences in spontaneous internal desynchrony patterns.

abstract：:The authors examined spatial working memory in the Morris water maze during the activity and rest periods of Wistar rats. Wheel-running activity was measured continuously as a marker of circadian phase. To minimize possible masking effects on performance, animals were placed in constant dim light the day before testin...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Valentinuzzi VS,Menna-Barreto L,Xavier GF

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Photoperiod influences the distribution of sleep and waking and electroencephalogram (EEG) power density in the Djungarian hamster. In an experimental procedure combining short photoperiod (SP) and low ambient temperature, the light-dark difference in the amount of sleep was decreased, and the changes in slow-wave act...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Deboer T,Vyazovskiy VV,Tobler I

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with targeted gene disruption have provided important information about the molecular mechanisms of circadian clock function. A full understanding of the roles of circadian-relevant genes requires manipulation of their expression in a tissue-specific manner, ideally including manipulation with high efficiency wit...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Weaver DR,van der Vinne V,Giannaris EL,Vajtay TJ,Holloway KL,Anaclet C

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Photic signals affect circadian activity rhythms by both phasic and tonic mechanisms that modulate pacemaker phase and period. In mammals, the effects of light on circadian activity are mediated by the retina, which communicates with the suprahiasmatic nucleus (SCN) by two different anatomical routes: the retino-hypot...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Pickard GE,Ralph MR,Menaker M

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:Past research has shown that there is a circadian oscillator in laboratory rats that is entrained by restricted feeding schedules. However, in laboratory rats at least, the light-dark (LD) cycle is the dominant zeitgeber in the entrainment of wheel-running activity rhythms. Given that dasyurid marsupials are predomina...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Coleman GJ,O'Reilly HM,Armstrong SM

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:Endogenous circadian rhythms are involved in various photoperiodic responses of birds. Investigations involving the mechanisms of photoperiodic time measurement in birds have been confined mainly to temperate zone species using males exclusively. Due to the paucity of experimental evidence on subtropical birds that ha...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Ravikumar G,Senthilkumaran B,Tewary PD,Goel AK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in circadian rhythms have been reported with some conflicting results. The timing of sleep and length of time in bed have not been considered, however, in previous such studies. The current study has 3 major aims: (1) replicate previous studies in a large sample of young adults for sex differences in s...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Van Reen E,Sharkey KM,Roane BM,Barker D,Seifer R,Raffray T,Bond TL,Carskadon MA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our attempts to understand the circadian system, we unavoidably rely on abstractions. Instead of describing the behavior of the circadian system in all its complexity, we try to derive basic features from which we form a global concept on how the system works. Such a basic concept is a model of reality. The author ...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Beersma DG

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：:Female Drosophila melanogaster, like many other organisms, exhibit different behavioral repertoires after mating with a male. These postmating responses (PMRs) include increased egg production and laying, increased rejection behavior (avoiding further male advances), decreased longevity, altered gustation and decrease...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Garbe DS,Vigderman AS,Moscato E,Dove AE,Vecsey CG,Kayser MS,Sehgal A

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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 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 aim of this study was to replicate and extend previous work in which the authors observed lower, shorter, and advanced nocturnal melatonin secretion patterns in premenstrually depressed patients compared to those in healthy control women. The authors also sought to test the hypothesis that the therapeutic effect o...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Parry BL,Berga SL,Mostofi N,Klauber MR,Resnick A

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：: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：:Hibernating animals have been a successful model system for elucidating fundamental properties of many physiological systems. Over the past 50 years, a diverse literature has emerged on the role of the circadian system in control and expression of winter torpor in several orders of birds and mammals. This body of rese...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Ruby NF

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective well-being largely depends on mood, which shows circadian rhythmicity and can be linked to rhythms in many physiological circadian markers, such as melatonin and cortisol. In healthy young volunteers mood is influenced by an interaction of circadian phase and the duration of time awake. The authors analyzed...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Birchler-Pedross A,Schröder CM,Münch M,Knoblauch V,Blatter K,Schnitzler-Sack C,Wirz-Justice A,Cajochen C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual adaptation to a shifted light-dark (LD) cycle is a key element of the circadian clock system and believed to be controlled by the central circadian pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Endocrine factors have a strong influence on the regulation of the circadian clock network and alter acute photic r...

journal_title：Journal of biological rhythms

authors： Pilorz V,Kolms B,Oster H

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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