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Zerbini G, Kantermann T, Merrow M. Strategies to decrease social jetlag: Reducing evening blue light advances sleep and melatonin. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 51:2355-2366. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Giulia Zerbini
- Chronobiology UnitGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life SciencesUniversity of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
- Institute of Medical PsychologyLMU Munich Munich Germany
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- Chronobiology UnitGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life SciencesUniversity of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
- SynOpus Bochum Germany
- University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (FOM) Essen Germany
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- Chronobiology UnitGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life SciencesUniversity of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
- Institute of Medical PsychologyLMU Munich Munich Germany
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Integration of color and intensity increases time signal stability for the human circadian system when sunlight is obscured by clouds. Sci Rep 2018; 8:15214. [PMID: 30315193 PMCID: PMC6185968 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33606-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The mammalian circadian system encodes both absolute levels of light intensity and color to phase-lock (entrain) its rhythm to the 24-h solar cycle. The evolutionary benefits of circadian color-coding over intensity-coding per se are yet far from understood. A detailed characterization of sunlight is crucial in understanding how and why circadian photoreception integrates color and intensity information. To this end, we continuously measured 100 days of sunlight spectra over the course of a year. Our analyses suggest that circadian color-coding may have evolved to cope with cloud-induced variation in light intensity. We proceed to show how an integration of intensity and spectral composition reduces day-to-day variability in the synchronizing signal (Zeitgeber). As a consequence, entrained phase angle of the circadian clock will be more stable, which will be beneficial for the organism. The presented characterization of sunlight dynamics may become important in designing lighting solutions aimed at minimizing the detrimental effects of light at night in modern societies.
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Responses to Intermittent Light Stimulation Late in the Night Phase Before Dawn. Clocks Sleep 2018; 1:26-41. [PMID: 33089153 PMCID: PMC7509681 DOI: 10.3390/clockssleep1010004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The circadian clock is comprised of two oscillators that independently track sunset (evening) and sunrise (morning), though little is known about how light responses differ in each. Here, we quantified the morning oscillator’s responses to 19 separate pulse trains, collecting observations from over 1300 Drosophila at ZT23. Our results show that the advances in activity onset produced by these protocols depended on the tempo of light administration even when total exposure was conserved across a 15-min window. Moreover, patterns of stimulation previously shown to optimize the evening oscillator’s delay resetting at ZT13 (an hour after dusk) were equally effective for the M oscillator at ZT23 (an hour before dawn), though the morning oscillator was by comparison more photosensitive and could benefit from a greater number of fractionation strategies that better converted light into phase-shifting drive. These data continue to build the case that the reading frames for the pacemaker’s time-of-day estimates at dusk and dawn are not uniform and suggest that the “photologic” for the evening versus morning oscillator’s resetting might be dissociable.
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Electroencephalogram alertness responses to blue light stimulus in elderly people with cataract. J Clin Neurosci 2018; 57:63-67. [PMID: 30217476 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2018.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Daytime blue light exposure can reduce fatigue and increase alertness in young healthy adults. Little is known of the daytime blue light influence on alertness in elders. A prospective with-in subject study was carried out in Peking University Third Hospital to evaluate the impact of cataract surgery on visual functions and the electroencephalogram alertness response to blue light stimulus before and after surgery. 14 participants diagnosed with age-related cataract were scheduled for monocular cataract surgery with ultraviolet-filtering intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), color discrimination and electroencephalogram results were measured before and after surgery. Exposure to blue light resulted in decreased delta (0.25-3.00 Hz) activity and increased beta (13.25-30.00 Hz) activity both before and after cataract surgery. Significant improvements in the BCVA and Farnsworth-Munsell-100-hue total error scores were found after cataract surgery. The partial error scores in the red-yellow, green blue-blue, and blue purple-purple red bands also showed significant differences, with the green blue-blue band showing the most obvious improvement. Day-time blue light stimulus can increase alertness in elderly people with significant cataracts. Cataract surgery with ultraviolet-filtering IOL implantation can increase light, particularly blue light transmittance. Opaque lens removal does not increase the alertness responses to blue light 1 day after surgery. Nevertheless, the increase in light especially blue light perception can be beneficial for the health of elder people in the long run.
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Evolution shapes the responsiveness of the D-box enhancer element to light and reactive oxygen species in vertebrates. Sci Rep 2018; 8:13180. [PMID: 30181539 PMCID: PMC6123470 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31570-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The circadian clock is a highly conserved cell-autonomous mechanism that directs daily rhythms in most aspects of biology. Daily entrainment by environmental signals, notably light, is essential for its function. However, our understanding of the mechanisms and the evolution of photic entrainment remains incomplete. Fish represent attractive models for exploring how light regulates the circadian clock due to the direct light sensitivity of their peripheral clocks. Central to this property is the light induced expression of clock genes that is mediated by D-box enhancer elements. Here, using zebrafish cells, we reveal that the light responsive D-box enhancer serves as a nuclear target for reactive oxygen species (ROS). We demonstrate that exposure to short wavelengths of visible light triggers increases in ROS levels via NADPH oxidase activity. Elevated ROS activates the JNK and p38 MAP kinases and in turn, induces clock gene expression via the D-box. In blind cavefish and mammals, where peripheral clocks are no longer entrained by direct illumination, ROS levels are still increased upon light exposure. However, in these species ROS no longer induces D-box driven clock gene transcription. Thus, during evolution, alterations in ROS-responsive signal transduction pathways underlie fundamental changes in peripheral clock photoentrainment.
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Mazzotta GM, Bellanda M, Minervini G, Damulewicz M, Cusumano P, Aufiero S, Stefani M, Zambelli B, Mammi S, Costa R, Tosatto SCE. Calmodulin Enhances Cryptochrome Binding to INAD in Drosophila Photoreceptors. Front Mol Neurosci 2018; 11:280. [PMID: 30177872 PMCID: PMC6109769 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Light is the main environmental stimulus that synchronizes the endogenous timekeeping systems in most terrestrial organisms. Drosophila cryptochrome (dCRY) is a light-responsive flavoprotein that detects changes in light intensity and wavelength around dawn and dusk. We have previously shown that dCRY acts through Inactivation No Afterpotential D (INAD) in a light-dependent manner on the Signalplex, a multiprotein complex that includes visual-signaling molecules, suggesting a role for dCRY in fly vision. Here, we predict and demonstrate a novel Ca2+-dependent interaction between dCRY and calmodulin (CaM). Through yeast two hybrid, coimmunoprecipitation (Co-IP), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and calorimetric analyses we were able to identify and characterize a CaM binding motif in the dCRY C-terminus. Similarly, we also detailed the CaM binding site of the scaffold protein INAD and demonstrated that CaM bridges dCRY and INAD to form a ternary complex in vivo. Our results suggest a process whereby a rapid dCRY light response stimulates an interaction with INAD, which can be further consolidated by a novel mechanism regulated by CaM.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Cell Biology and Imaging, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy
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Falck RS, Davis JC, Best JR, Li LC, Chan PCY, Wyrough AB, Landry GJ, Liu-Ambrose T. Buying time: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial to improve sleep quality and cognitive function among older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Trials 2018; 19:445. [PMID: 30119694 PMCID: PMC6098594 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2837-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Current evidence suggests that good quality sleep is associated with preserved cognitive function and reduced dementia risk in older adults. Sleep complaints are especially common among older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and this may contribute to their increased risk for progression to dementia. Thus, improving their sleep may be important for maintaining their cognitive health. Chronotherapy is a set of intervention strategies that can improve sleep quality through strengthening the entrainment of the biological clock to the solar light-dark cycle, and includes strategies such as (1) bright light therapy (BLT); (2) physical activity (PA); and (3) good sleep hygiene. Of these strategies, BLT is the most potent and is based on providing individualized timing to entrain circadian rhythms. Thus, a personalized chronotherapy intervention of individually timed BLT and individually tailored PA promotion, in conjunction with general sleep hygiene education may promote older adult sleep quality. We therefore aim to carry out a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the efficacy of such a personalized chronotherapy intervention to improve sleep quality among older adults with MCI. METHODS/DESIGN This was a 24-week RCT of a personalized chronotherapy intervention aimed to primarily improve sleep quality as measured by the MotionWatch8©. Participants in the personalized chronotherapy group (INT) will receive four once-weekly, general sleep hygiene education classes, followed by 20 weeks of (1) individually timed BLT and (2) bi-weekly, individually tailored PA counseling phone calls in conjunction with receiving a consumer-available PA tracker-the Fitbit® Flex™. Ninety-six adults (aged 65-85 years) classified as having MCI (i.e., Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) ≥ 24; Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) ≤ 26; without dementia or significant functional impairment) will be randomized to either INT or a waitlist control group (CON). DISCUSSION The results of this trial will help determine if a personalized chronotherapy intervention that includes individually timed BLT and individually tailored PA promotion, along with general sleep hygiene education can promote sleep quality among older adults at increased risk for dementia. Our results will help inform best practices for promoting sleep quality among older adults with MCI. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov , NCT02926157 . Registered on 6 October 2016.
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- Ryan S Falck
- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Management, University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Arthritis Research Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Negelspach DC, Kaladchibachi S, Fernandez F. The circadian activity rhythm is reset by nanowatt pulses of ultraviolet light. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 285:20181288. [PMID: 30068685 PMCID: PMC6111179 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The circadian pacemaker synchronizes to the Earth's rotation by tracking step-by-step changes in illumination that occur as the sun passes the horizon. While twilight progressions of irradiance and colour are considered important stimuli in this process, comparably less thought has been given to the possibility that ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation might actually play a more formative role given its evolutionary significance in shaping 24 h timekeeping. Here, we show that Drosophila activity rhythms can be phase-shifted by UVA light at an energy range seated well below that of the visible spectrum. Because the energy threshold for this resetting matches the incident amount of UVA on the human retina at twilight, our results suggest that UVA light has the potential to function as a similar time cue in people.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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The impact of day length on cell division and efficiency of light use in a starchless mutant of Tetradesmus obliquus. ALGAL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Go D, Rommel D, Liao Y, Haraszti T, Sprakel J, Kuehne AJC. Dissipative disassembly of colloidal microgel crystals driven by a coupled cyclic reaction network. SOFT MATTER 2018; 14:910-915. [PMID: 29379929 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02061a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A plethora of natural systems rely on the consumption of chemical fuel or input of external energy to control the assembly and disassembly of functional structures on demand. While dissipative assembly has been demonstrated, the control of structural breakdown using a dissipative cycle remains almost unexplored. Here, we propose and realize a dissipative disassembly process using two coupled cyclic reactions, in which protons mediate the interaction between the cycles. We show how an ordered colloidal crystal, can cyclically transform into a disordered state by addition of energy to a chemical cycle, reversibly activating a photoacid. This cycle is coupled to the colloidal assembly cycle via the exchange of protons, which in turn trigger charging of the particles. This system is an experimental realization of a cyclic reaction-assembly network and its principle can be extended to other types of structure formation.
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- Dennis Go
- DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52076, Aachen, Germany.
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- DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52076, Aachen, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
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- DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52076, Aachen, Germany.
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- Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52076, Aachen, Germany.
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Precision Light for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. Neural Plast 2018; 2018:5868570. [PMID: 29593784 PMCID: PMC5821959 DOI: 10.1155/2018/5868570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Circadian timekeeping can be reset by brief flashes of light using stimulation protocols thousands of times shorter than those previously assumed to be necessary for traditional phototherapy. These observations point to a future where flexible architectures of nanosecond-, microsecond-, and millisecond-scale light pulses are compiled to reprogram the brain's internal clock when it has been altered by psychiatric illness or advanced age. In the current review, we present a chronology of seminal experiments that established the synchronizing influence of light on the human circadian system and the efficacy of prolonged bright-light exposure for reducing symptoms associated with seasonal affective disorder. We conclude with a discussion of the different ways that precision flashes could be parlayed during sleep to effect neuroadaptive changes in brain function. This article is a contribution to a special issue on Circadian Rhythms in Regulation of Brain Processes and Role in Psychiatric Disorders curated by editors Shimon Amir, Karen Gamble, Oliver Stork, and Harry Pantazopoulos.
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McMahon DM, Burch JB, Wirth MD, Youngstedt SD, Hardin JW, Hurley TG, Blair SN, Hand GA, Shook RP, Drenowatz C, Burgess S, Hebert JR. Persistence of social jetlag and sleep disruption in healthy young adults. Chronobiol Int 2017; 35:312-328. [PMID: 29231745 DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2017.1405014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sleep disruption has been associated with increased risks for several major chronic diseases that develop over decades. Differences in sleep/wake timing between work and free days can result in the development of social jetlag (SJL), a chronic misalignment between a person's preferred sleep/wake schedule and sleep/wake timing imposed by his/her work schedule. Only a few studies have examined the persistence of SJL or sleep disruption over time. This prospective investigation examined SJL and sleep characteristics over a 2-year period to evaluate whether SJL or poor sleep were chronic conditions during the study period. SJL and sleep measures (total sleep time [TST], sleep onset latency [SOL], wake after sleep onset [WASO]), and sleep efficiency [SE]), were derived from armband monitoring among 390 healthy men and women 21-35 years old. Participants wore the armband for periods of 4-10 days at 6-month intervals during the follow-up period (N = 1431 repeated observations). The consistency of SJL or sleep disruption over time was analyzed using generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) for repeated measures. Repeated measures latent class analysis (RMLCA) was then used to identify subgroups among the study participants with different sleep trajectories over time. Individuals in each latent group were compared using GLMMs to identify personal characteristics that differed among the latent groups. Minor changes in mean SJL, chronotype, or TST were observed over time, whereas no statistically significant changes in SOL, WASO, or SE were observed during the study period. The RMLCA identified two groups of SJL that remained consistent throughout the study (low SJL, mean ± SE: 0.4 ± 0.04 h, 42% of the study population; and high SJL, 1.4 ± 0.03 h, 58%). Those in the SJL group with higher values tended to be employed and have an evening chronotype. Similarly, two distinct subgroups were observed for SOL, WASO, and SE; one group with a pattern suggesting disrupted sleep over time, and another with a consistently normal sleep pattern. Analyses of TST identified three latent groups with relatively short (5.6 ± 1.0 h, 21%), intermediate (6.5 ± 1.0 h, 44%), and long (7.3 ± 1.0 h, 36%) sleep durations, all with temporally stable, linear trajectories. The results from this study suggest that sleep disturbances among young adults can persist over a 2 year period. Latent groups with poor sleep tended to be male, African American, lower income, and have an evening chronotype relative to those with more normal sleep characteristics. Characterizing the persistence of sleep disruption over time and its contributing factors could be important for understanding the role of poor sleep as a chronic disease risk factor.
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- Daria M McMahon
- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,b Cancer Prevention and Control Program , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,c WJB Dorn Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Columbia , SC , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,b Cancer Prevention and Control Program , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,d College of Nursing , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- e College of Nursing and Health Innovation , Arizona State University , Phoenix , AZ , USA.,f Phoenix VA Health Care System , Phoenix , AZ , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- b Cancer Prevention and Control Program , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,g Department of Exercise Science , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- h School of Public Health , West Virginia University , Morgantown, WV , USA
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- i Department of Pediatrics , Center for Healthy Lifestyles and Nutrition, Children's Mercy Hospital , Kansas City, MO , USA
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- g Department of Exercise Science , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,j University of Education Upper Austria , Division of Physical Education , Linz , Austria
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- d College of Nursing , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.,b Cancer Prevention and Control Program , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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Kopperud KL, Grace MS. Circadian Rhythms of Retinomotor Movement in a Marine Megapredator, the Atlantic Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:E2068. [PMID: 28956858 PMCID: PMC5666750 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18102068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Many ecologically and economically important marine fish species worldwide spend portions of their lives in coastal regions that are increasingly inundated by artificial light at night. However, while extensive research illustrates the harmful effects of inappropriate light exposure on biological timing in humans, rodents and birds, comparable studies on marine fish are virtually nonexistent. This study aimed to assess the effects of light on biological clock function in the marine fish retina using the Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) as a model. Using anti-opsin immunofluorescence, we observed robust rhythms of photoreceptor outer segment position (retinomotor movement) over the course of the daily light-dark cycle: cone outer segments were contracted toward the inner retina and rods were elongated during the day; the opposite occurred at night. Phase shifting the daily light-dark cycle caused a corresponding shift of retinomotor movement timing, and cone retinomotor movement persisted in constant darkness, indicating control by a circadian clock. Constant light abolished retinomotor movements of both photoreceptor types. Thus, abnormally-timed light exposure may disrupt normal M. atlanticus clock function and harm vision, which in turn may affect prey capture and predator avoidance. These results should help inform efforts to mitigate the effects of coastal light pollution on organisms in marine ecosystems.
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- Kristin L Kopperud
- College of Science, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.
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- College of Science, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.
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Comas M, Gordon CJ, Oliver BG, Stow NW, King G, Sharma P, Ammit AJ, Grunstein RR, Phillips CL. A circadian based inflammatory response – implications for respiratory disease and treatment. SLEEP SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2017. [DOI: 10.1186/s41606-017-0019-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Brown TM. Using light to tell the time of day: sensory coding in the mammalian circadian visual network. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 219:1779-92. [PMID: 27307539 PMCID: PMC4920240 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.132167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Circadian clocks are a near-ubiquitous feature of biology, allowing organisms to optimise their physiology to make the most efficient use of resources and adjust behaviour to maximise survival over the solar day. To fulfil this role, circadian clocks require information about time in the external world. This is most reliably obtained by measuring the pronounced changes in illumination associated with the earth's rotation. In mammals, these changes are exclusively detected in the retina and are relayed by direct and indirect neural pathways to the master circadian clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei. Recent work reveals a surprising level of complexity in this sensory control of the circadian system, including the participation of multiple photoreceptive pathways conveying distinct aspects of visual and/or time-of-day information. In this Review, I summarise these important recent advances, present hypotheses as to the functions and neural origins of these sensory signals, highlight key challenges for future research and discuss the implications of our current knowledge for animals and humans in the modern world.
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- Timothy M Brown
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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Sánchez-Gendriz I, Padovese L. A methodology for analyzing biological choruses from long-term passive acoustic monitoring in natural areas. ECOL INFORM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Seki M, Ohara T, Hearn TJ, Frank A, da Silva VCH, Caldana C, Webb AAR, Satake A. Adjustment of the Arabidopsis circadian oscillator by sugar signalling dictates the regulation of starch metabolism. Sci Rep 2017; 7:8305. [PMID: 28814797 PMCID: PMC5559614 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08325-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Arabidopsis plants store part of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis as starch to sustain growth at night. Two competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain this diel starch turnover based on either the measurement of starch abundance with respect to circadian time, or the sensing of sugars to feedback to the circadian oscillator to dynamically adjust the timing of starch turnover. We report a phase oscillator model that permitted derivation of the ideal responses of the circadian regulation of starch breakdown to maintain sucrose homeostasis. Testing the model predictions using a sugar-unresponsive mutant of Arabidopsis demonstrated that the dynamics of starch turnover arise from the circadian clock measuring and responding to the rate of change of cellular sucrose. Our theory and experiments suggest that starch turnover is controlled by the circadian clock acting as a dynamic homeostat responding to sucrose signals to maintain carbon homeostasis.
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- Motohide Seki
- 0000 0001 2242 4849grid.177174.3Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- 0000 0001 2242 4849grid.177174.3Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan ,0000 0001 2173 7691grid.39158.36Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, N10W5, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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- 0000000121885934grid.5335.0Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA United Kingdom
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- 0000000121885934grid.5335.0Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA United Kingdom
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- Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Rua Giuseppe Máximo Scolfaro 10.000 CEP 13083-100 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Rua Giuseppe Máximo Scolfaro 10.000 CEP 13083-100 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil ,Max Planck Partner Group at Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Campinas, SP Brazil
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- 0000000121885934grid.5335.0Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA United Kingdom
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- 0000 0001 2242 4849grid.177174.3Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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Donohue MW, Carleton KL, Cronin TW. Opsin Expression in the Central Nervous System of the Mantis Shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii. THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 2017; 233:58-69. [PMID: 29182505 DOI: 10.1086/694421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Visual pigments, each composed of an opsin protein covalently bound to a chromophore molecule, confer light sensitivity for vision. The eyes of some species of stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimp, can express dozens of different opsin genes. The opsin diversity, along with spectral filters and unique tripartite eye structure, bestow upon stomatopods unusually complex visual systems. Although opsins are found in tissues outside typical image-forming eyes in other animals, extraocular opsin expression in stomatopods, animals well known for their diversity of opsins, was unknown. Caudal photoreception in the central nervous system of decapod crustaceans, a group closely related to stomatopod crustaceans, is thought to be opsin based. However, electrophysiological data suggest that stomatopods do not have caudal photoreceptors. In this study, we identified mRNAs that could encode four different opsins and several components of a potential Gq-mediated phototransduction pathway in the central nervous system of the Caribbean mantis shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii. The four opsins are abundantly expressed in the cerebral ganglion, or brain, with little or no expression in the remainder of the ventral nerve cord. Our data suggest that there are previously undiscovered cerebral photoreceptors in stomatopods.
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Key Words
- A1–6, first through sixth abdominal ganglia
- Arr, arrestin
- CG, cerebral ganglion
- DGK, diacylglycerol kinase
- Gprk, G-protein-receptor kinases
- Gαq, Gq protein alpha subunit
- Gβ, G protein beta subunit
- Gγ, G protein gamma subunit
- LWS, long-wavelength-sensitive
- MWS, medium-wavelength-sensitive
- PKC, protein kinase C
- PLC, phospholipase C
- SEG, subesophageal ganglion
- T7–9, thoracic ganglia
- TRP, transient receptor potential channel
- rdgB, phosphatidylinositol transfer protein
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Williams CT, Barnes BM, Yan L, Buck CL. Entraining to the polar day: circadian rhythms in arctic ground squirrels. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [PMID: 28623226 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.159889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Circadian systems are principally entrained to 24 h light-dark cycles, but this cue is seasonally absent in polar environments. Although some resident polar vertebrates have weak circadian clocks and are seasonally arrhythmic, the arctic ground squirrel (AGS) maintains daily rhythms of physiology and behavior throughout the summer, which includes 6 weeks of constant daylight. Here, we show that persistent daily rhythms in AGS are maintained through a circadian system that readily entrains to the polar day yet remains insensitive to entrainment by rapid light-dark transitions, which AGS generate naturally as a consequence of their semi-fossorial behavior. Additionally, AGS do not show 'jet lag', the slow realignment of circadian rhythms induced by the inertia of an intrinsically stable master circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). We suggest this is due to the low expression of arginine vasopressin in the SCN of AGS, as vasopressin is associated with inter-neuronal coupling and robust rhythmicity.
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- Cory T Williams
- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Bioengineering Innovation, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Bioengineering Innovation, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
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Spitschan M, Lucas RJ, Brown TM. Chromatic clocks: Color opponency in non-image-forming visual function. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 78:24-33. [PMID: 28442402 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Revised: 03/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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During dusk and dawn, the ambient illumination undergoes drastic changes in irradiance (or intensity) and spectrum (or color). While the former is a well-studied factor in synchronizing behavior and physiology to the earth's 24-h rotation, color sensitivity in the regulation of circadian rhythms has not been systematically studied. Drawing on the concept of color opponency, a well-known property of image-forming vision in many vertebrates (including humans), we consider how the spectral shifts during twilight are encoded by a color-opponent sensory system for non-image-forming (NIF) visual functions, including phase shifting and melatonin suppression. We review electrophysiological evidence for color sensitivity in the pineal/parietal organs of fish, amphibians and reptiles, color coding in neurons in the circadian pacemaker in mice as well as sporadic evidence for color sensitivity in NIF visual functions in birds and mammals. Together, these studies suggest that color opponency may be an important modulator of light-driven physiological and behavioral responses.
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- Manuel Spitschan
- Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom
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de Winter L, Cabanelas I, Órfão A, Vaessen E, Martens D, Wijffels R, Barbosa M. The influence of day length on circadian rhythms of Neochloris oleoabundans. ALGAL RES 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2016.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Derbidge R, Baumgartner S, Heusser P. Mistletoe Berry Outline Mapping with a Path Curve Function and Recording the Circadian Rhythm of Their Phenotypic Shape Change. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1749. [PMID: 27933073 PMCID: PMC5122707 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This paper presents a discovery: the change of the outline shape of mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. album) berries in vivo and in situ during ripening. It was found that a plant organ that is usually considered to merely increase in size actually changes shape in a specific rhythmic fashion. We introduce a new approach to chronobiological research on a macro-phenotypic scale to trace changes over long periods of time (with a resolution from hours to months) by using a dynamic form-determining parameter called Lambda (λ). λ is known in projective geometry as a measure for pertinent features of the outline shapes of egg-like forms, so called path curves. Ascertained circadian changes of form were analyzed for their correlation with environmental factors such as light, temperature, and other weather influences. Certain weather conditions such as sky cover, i.e., sunshine minutes per hour, have an impact on the amplitude of the daily change in form. The present paper suggests a possible supplement to established methods in chronobiology, as in this case the dynamic of form-change becomes a measurable feature, displaying a convincing accordance between mathematical rule and plant shape.
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- Renatus Derbidge
- Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/HerdeckeWitten, Germany
- Research Institute at the Goetheanum, Science SectionDornach, Switzerland
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- Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/HerdeckeWitten, Germany
- Hiscia Institute, Society for Cancer ResearchArlesheim, Switzerland
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- Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/HerdeckeWitten, Germany
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Aptel F, Weinreb RN, Chiquet C, Mansouri K. 24-h monitoring devices and nyctohemeral rhythms of intraocular pressure. Prog Retin Eye Res 2016; 55:108-148. [PMID: 27477112 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2016.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Intraocular pressure (IOP) is not a fixed value and varies over both the short term and periods lasting several months or years. In particular, IOP is known to vary throughout the 24-h period of a day, defined as a nyctohemeral rhythm in humans. In clinical practice, it is crucial to evaluate the changes in IOP over 24 h in several situations, including the diagnosis of ocular hypertension and glaucoma (IOP is often higher at night) and to optimize the therapeutic management of glaucoma. Until recently, all evaluations of 24-h IOP rhythm were performed using repeated IOP measurements, requiring individuals to be awakened for nocturnal measurements. This method may be imperfect, because it is not physiologic and disturbs the sleep architecture, and also because it provides a limited number of time point measurements not sufficient to finely asses IOP changes. These limitations may have biased previous descriptions of physiological IOP rhythm. Recently, extraocular and intraocular devices integrating a pressure sensor for continuous IOP monitoring have been developed and are available for use in humans. The objective of this article is to present the contributions of these new 24-h monitoring devices for the study of the nyctohemeral rhythms. In healthy subjects and untreated glaucoma subjects, a nyctohemeral rhythm is consistently found and frequently characterized by a mean diurnal IOP lower than the mean nocturnal IOP, with a diurnal bathyphase - usually in the middle or at the end of the afternoon - and a nocturnal acrophase, usually in the middle or at the end of the night.
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- Florent Aptel
- Inserm U1042, Hypoxia and Physiopathology Laboratory, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France; Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Shiley Eye Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Inserm U1042, Hypoxia and Physiopathology Laboratory, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France; Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Glaucoma Center, Montchoisi Clinic, Swiss Vision Network, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
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Flôres DEFL, Jannetti MG, Valentinuzzi VS, Oda GA. Entrainment of circadian rhythms to irregular light/dark cycles: a subterranean perspective. Sci Rep 2016; 6:34264. [PMID: 27698436 PMCID: PMC5048425 DOI: 10.1038/srep34264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Synchronization of biological rhythms to the 24-hour day/night has long been studied with model organisms, under artificial light/dark cycles in the laboratory. The commonly used rectangular light/dark cycles, comprising hours of continuous light and darkness, may not be representative of the natural light exposure for most species, including humans. Subterranean rodents live in dark underground tunnels and offer a unique opportunity to investigate extreme mechanisms of photic entrainment in the wild. Here, we show automated field recordings of the daily light exposure patterns in a South American subterranean rodent, the tuco-tuco (Ctenomys aff. knighti ). In the laboratory, we exposed tuco-tucos to a simplified version of this natural light exposure pattern, to determine the minimum light timing information that is necessary for synchronization. As predicted from our previous studies using mathematical modeling, the activity rhythm of tuco-tucos synchronized to this mostly simplified light/dark regimen consisting of a single light pulse per day, occurring at randomly scattered times within a day length interval. Our integrated semi-natural, lab and computer simulation findings indicate that photic entrainment of circadian oscillators is robust, even in face of artificially reduced exposure and increased phase instability of the synchronizing stimuli.
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- Danilo E. F. L. Flôres
- Institute of Biosciences, Department of Physiology, University of São Paulo; São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900; Brazil
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- Institute of Biosciences, Department of Physiology, University of São Paulo; São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900; Brazil
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- Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica de La Rioja (CRILAR), Provincia de La Rioja, UNLaR, SEGEMAR, UNCa, CONICET. Entre Ríos y Mendoza s/n, (5301) Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina
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- Institute of Biosciences, Department of Physiology, University of São Paulo; São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900; Brazil
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Oosthuizen MK, Cooper HM, Bennett NC. Circadian Rhythms of Locomotor Activity in Solitary and Social Species of African Mole-Rats (Family: Bathyergidae). J Biol Rhythms 2016; 18:481-90. [PMID: 14667149 DOI: 10.1177/0748730403259109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mole-rats are strictly subterranean and hardly, if ever, come into contact with external light. As a result, their classical visual system is severely regressed and the circadian system proportionally expanded. The family Bathyergidae presents a unique opportunity to study the circadian system in the absence of the classical visual system in a range of species. Daily patterns of activity were studied in the laboratory under constant temperature but variable lighting regimes in individually housed animals from3 species of mole-rat exhibiting markedly different degrees of sociality. All 3 species possessed individuals that exhibited endogenous circadian rhythms under constant darkness that entrained to a light-dark cycle. In the solitary species, Georychus capensis, 9 animals exhibited greater activity during the dark phase of the light cycle, while 2 individuals expressed more activity in the light phase of the light cycle. In the social, Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae, 5 animals displayed the majority of their activity during the dark phase of the light cycle and the remaining 2 exhibited more activity during the light phase of the light cycle. Finally in the eusocial Cryptomys damarensis, 6 animals displayed more activity during the light phase of the light cycle, and the other 2 animals displayed more activity during the dark phase of the light cycle. Since all three mole-rat species are able to entrain their locomotor activity to an external light source, light must reach the SCN, suggesting a functional circadian clock. In comparison to the solitary species, the 2 social species display a markedly poorer response to light in all aspects. Thus, in parallel with the sociality continuum, there exists a continuum of sensitivity of the circadian clock to light.
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- Maria K Oosthuizen
- Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
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Rieger D, Stanewsky R, Helfrich-Förster C. Cryptochrome, Compound Eyes, Hofbauer-Buchner Eyelets, and Ocelli Play Different Roles in the Entrainment and Masking Pathway of the Locomotor Activity Rhythm in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster. J Biol Rhythms 2016; 18:377-91. [PMID: 14582854 DOI: 10.1177/0748730403256997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The fly Drosophila melanogaster possesses five photoreceptors and/or photopigments that appear to be involved in light reception and synchronization of the circadian clock: (1) the compound eyes, (2) the ocelli, (3) the Hofbauer-Buchner eyelets, (4) the blue-light photopigment cryptochrome, and (5) unknown photopigments in the clock-gene-expressing dorsal neurons. To understand the contributions of these photoreceptors and photopigments to synchronization, the authors monitored the flies' activity rhythms under artificial long and short days. They found that all the different photoreceptors and photo-pigments contribute significantly to entrainment under each photoperiod, but the compound eyes are especially important for entrainment to extreme photoperiods. The compound eyes are, furthermore, necessary for adjusting the phase of the activity rhythm, for distinguishing long days from constant light, and for the normal masking effects of light—namely, promotion of activity by lights-on and inhibition of activity by darkness. Cryptochrome is important for period lengthening under long days, although it is more important for entrainment to short days than to long days and is, furthermore, important for after effects of the photoperiod on the internal clock. The specific roles of the remaining photoreceptors are more difficult to assess.
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- Dirk Rieger
- University of Regensburg, Institute of Zoology, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Foulkes NS, Whitmore D, Vallone D, Bertolucci C. Studying the Evolution of the Vertebrate Circadian Clock: The Power of Fish as Comparative Models. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2016; 95:1-30. [PMID: 27503352 DOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2016.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The utility of any model species cannot be judged solely in terms of the tools and approaches it provides for genetic analysis. A fundamental consideration is also how its biology has been shaped by the environment and the ecological niche which it occupies. By comparing different species occupying very different habitats we can learn how molecular and cellular mechanisms change during evolution in order to optimally adapt to their environment. Such knowledge is as important as understanding how these mechanisms work. This is illustrated by the use of fish models for studying the function and evolution of the circadian clock. In this review we outline our current understanding of how fish clocks sense and respond to light and explain how this differs fundamentally from the situation with mammalian clocks. In addition, we present results from comparative studies involving two species of blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus and Phreatichthys andruzzii. This work reveals the consequences of evolution in perpetual darkness for the circadian clock and its regulation by light as well as for other mechanisms such as DNA repair, sleep, and metabolism which directly or indirectly are affected by regular exposure to sunlight. Major differences in the cave habitats inhabited by these two cavefish species have a clear impact on shaping the molecular and cellular adaptations to life in complete darkness.
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- N S Foulkes
- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; Centre for Organismal Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Pilorz V, Tam SKE, Hughes S, Pothecary CA, Jagannath A, Hankins MW, Bannerman DM, Lightman SL, Vyazovskiy VV, Nolan PM, Foster RG, Peirson SN. Melanopsin Regulates Both Sleep-Promoting and Arousal-Promoting Responses to Light. PLoS Biol 2016; 14:e1002482. [PMID: 27276063 PMCID: PMC4898879 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Light plays a critical role in the regulation of numerous aspects of physiology and behaviour, including the entrainment of circadian rhythms and the regulation of sleep. These responses involve melanopsin (OPN4)-expressing photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs) in addition to rods and cones. Nocturnal light exposure in rodents has been shown to result in rapid sleep induction, in which melanopsin plays a key role. However, studies have also shown that light exposure can result in elevated corticosterone, a response that is not compatible with sleep. To investigate these contradictory findings and to dissect the relative contribution of pRGCs and rods/cones, we assessed the effects of light of different wavelengths on behaviourally defined sleep. Here, we show that blue light (470 nm) causes behavioural arousal, elevating corticosterone and delaying sleep onset. By contrast, green light (530 nm) produces rapid sleep induction. Compared to wildtype mice, these responses are altered in melanopsin-deficient mice (Opn4-/-), resulting in enhanced sleep in response to blue light but delayed sleep induction in response to green or white light. We go on to show that blue light evokes higher Fos induction in the SCN compared to the sleep-promoting ventrolateral preoptic area (VLPO), whereas green light produced greater responses in the VLPO. Collectively, our data demonstrates that nocturnal light exposure can have either an arousal- or sleep-promoting effect, and that these responses are melanopsin-mediated via different neural pathways with different spectral sensitivities. These findings raise important questions relating to how artificial light may alter behaviour in both the work and domestic setting. Light can produce either sleep or arousal in mice. This study reveals that these opposing effects depend upon the wavelength of light and appear to involve separate pathways, both modulated by the photopigment melanopsin. Light exerts profound effects on our physiology and behaviour, setting our biological clocks to the correct time and regulating when we are asleep and we are awake. The photoreceptors mediating these responses include the rods and cones involved in vision, as well as a subset of photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs) expressing the blue light-sensitive photopigment melanopsin. Previous studies have shown that mice lacking melanopsin show impaired sleep in response to light. However, other studies have shown that light increases glucocorticoid release—a response typically associated with stress. To address these contradictory findings, we studied the responses of mice to light of different colours. We found that blue light was aversive, delaying sleep onset and increasing glucocorticoid levels. By contrast, green light led to rapid sleep onset. These different behavioural effects appear to be driven by different neural pathways. Surprisingly, both responses were impaired in mice lacking melanopsin. These data show that light can promote either sleep or arousal. Moreover, they provide the first evidence that melanopsin directly mediates the effects of light on glucocorticoids. This work shows the extent to which light affects our physiology and has important implications for the design and use of artificial light sources.
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- Violetta Pilorz
- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (SNP); (RGF)
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (SNP); (RGF)
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Variation of outdoor illumination as a function of solar elevation and light pollution. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26756. [PMID: 27272736 PMCID: PMC4895134 DOI: 10.1038/srep26756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The illumination of the environment undergoes both intensity and spectral changes during the 24 h cycle of a day. Daylight spectral power distributions are well described by low-dimensional models such as the CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage) daylight model, but the performance of this model in non-daylight regimes is not characterised. We measured downwelling spectral irradiance across multiple days in two locations in North America: One rural location (Cherry Springs State Park, PA) with minimal anthropogenic light sources, and one city location (Philadelphia, PA). We characterise the spectral, intensity and colour changes and extend the existing CIE model for daylight to capture twilight components and the spectrum of the night sky.
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Ohara T, Fukuda H, Tokuda IT. Phase response of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock to light pulses of different wavelengths. J Biol Rhythms 2016; 30:95-103. [PMID: 25838417 DOI: 10.1177/0748730415576426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Light is known as one of the most powerful environmental time cues for the circadian system. The quality of light is characterized by its intensity and wavelength. We examined how the phase response of Arabidopsis thaliana depends on the wavelength of the stimulus light and the type of light perturbation. Using transgenic A. thaliana expressing a luciferase gene, we monitored the rhythm of the bioluminescence signal. We stimulated the plants under constant red light using 3 light perturbation treatments: (1) increasing the red light intensity, (2) turning on a blue light while turning off the red light, and (3) turning on a blue light while keeping the red light on. To examine the phase response properties, we generated a phase transition curve (PTC), which plots the phase after the perturbation as a function of the phase before the perturbation. To evaluate the effect of the 3 light perturbation treatments, we simulated PTCs using a mathematical model of the plant circadian clock and fitted the simulated PTCs to the experimentally measured PTCs. Among the 3 treatments, perturbation (3) provided the strongest stimulus. The results indicate that the color of the stimulus light and the type of pulse administration affect the phase response in a complex manner. Moreover, the results suggest the involvement of interaction between red and blue light signaling pathways in resetting of the plant circadian clock.
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- Takayuki Ohara
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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Díaz NM, Morera LP, Guido ME. Melanopsin and the Non-visual Photochemistry in the Inner Retina of Vertebrates. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 92:29-44. [DOI: 10.1111/php.12545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Nicolás M. Díaz
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC (CONICET); Facultad de Ciencias Químicas; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC); Córdoba Argentina
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- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC (CONICET); Facultad de Ciencias Químicas; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC); Córdoba Argentina
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- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC (CONICET); Facultad de Ciencias Químicas; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC); Córdoba Argentina
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Circadian rhythms are an essential property of life on Earth. In mammals, these rhythms are coordinated by a small set of neurons, located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). The environmental light/dark cycle synchronizes (entrains) the SCN via a distinct pathway, originating in a subset of photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs) that utilize the photopigment melanopsin (OPN4). The pRGCs are also innervated by rods and cones and, so, are both endogenously and exogenously light sensitive. Accumulating evidence has shown that the circadian system is sensitive to ultraviolet (UV), blue, and green wavelengths of light. However, it was unclear whether colour perception itself can help entrain the SCN. By utilizing both behavioural and electrophysiological recording techniques, Walmsley and colleagues show that multiple photic channels interact and enhance the capacity of the SCN to synchronize to the environmental cycle. Thus, entrainment of the circadian system combines both environmental irradiance and colour information to ensure that internal and external time are appropriately aligned. New evidence reveals that entrainment of the circadian clock combines both environmental irradiance and color information to ensure that internal and external time are appropriately aligned.
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- Hester C. van Diepen
- Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University medical School, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology; Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology; Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University medical School, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Walmsley L, Hanna L, Mouland J, Martial F, West A, Smedley AR, Bechtold DA, Webb AR, Lucas RJ, Brown TM. Colour as a signal for entraining the mammalian circadian clock. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002127. [PMID: 25884537 PMCID: PMC4401556 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Twilight is characterised by changes in both quantity (“irradiance”) and quality (“colour”) of light. Animals use the variation in irradiance to adjust their internal circadian clocks, aligning their behaviour and physiology with the solar cycle. However, it is currently unknown whether changes in colour also contribute to this entrainment process. Using environmental measurements, we show here that mammalian blue–yellow colour discrimination provides a more reliable method of tracking twilight progression than simply measuring irradiance. We next use electrophysiological recordings to demonstrate that neurons in the mouse suprachiasmatic circadian clock display the cone-dependent spectral opponency required to make use of this information. Thus, our data show that some clock neurons are highly sensitive to changes in spectral composition occurring over twilight and that this input dictates their response to changes in irradiance. Finally, using mice housed under photoperiods with simulated dawn/dusk transitions, we confirm that spectral changes occurring during twilight are required for appropriate circadian alignment under natural conditions. Together, these data reveal a new sensory mechanism for telling time of day that would be available to any mammalian species capable of chromatic vision. Environmental measurements and physiological recordings reveal that mice not only use changes in the intensity of sunlight to entrain their circadian clock, but also employ blue–yellow color discrimination to detect spectral changes associated with dawn and dusk. Animals use an internal brain clock to keep track of time and adjust their behaviour in anticipation of the coming day or night. To be useful, however, this clock must be synchronised to external time. Assessing external time is typically thought to rely on measuring large changes in ambient light intensity that occur over dawn/dusk. The colour of light also changes over these twilight transitions, but it is currently unknown whether such changes in colour are important for synchronising biological clocks to the solar cycle. Here we show that the mammalian blue–yellow colour discrimination axis provides a more reliable indication of twilight progression than a system solely measuring changes in light intensity. We go on to use electrical recordings from the brain clock to reveal the presence of many neurons that can track changes in blue–yellow colour occurring during natural twilight. Finally, using mice housed under lighting regimes with simulated dawn/dusk transitions, we show that changes in colour are required for appropriate biological timing with respect to the solar cycle. In sum, our data reveal a new sensory mechanism for estimating time of day that should be available to all mammals capable of chromatic vision, including humans.
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- Lauren Walmsley
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (RJL); (TMB)
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (RJL); (TMB)
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Yadav G, Malik S, Rani S, Kumar V. Role of light wavelengths in synchronization of circadian physiology in songbirds. Physiol Behav 2015; 140:164-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Revised: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Walmsley L, Brown TM. Eye-specific visual processing in the mouse suprachiasmatic nuclei. J Physiol 2015; 593:1731-43. [PMID: 25652666 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.288225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Internal circadian clocks are important regulators of mammalian biology, acting to coordinate physiology and behaviour in line with daily changes in the environment. At present, synchronisation of the circadian system to the solar cycle is believed to rely on a quantitative assessment of total ambient illumination, provided by a bilateral projection from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). It is currently unclear, however, whether this photic integration occurs at the level of individual cells or within the SCN network. Here we use extracellular multielectrode recordings from the SCN of anaesthetised mice to show that most SCN neurons receive visual input from just one eye. While we find that binocular inputs to a subset of cells are important for rapid responses to changes in illumination, we find no evidence indicating that individual SCN cells are capable of reporting the average light intensity across the whole visual field. As a result of these local irradiance coding properties, our data establish that photic integration is primarily mediated at the level of the SCN network and suggest that accurate assessments of global light levels would be impaired by non-uniform illumination of either eye.
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- Lauren Walmsley
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Gooch VD, Johnson AE, Bourne BJ, Nix BT, Maas JA, Fox JA, Loros JJ, Larrondo LF, Dunlap JC. A kinetic study of the effects of light on circadian rhythmicity of the frq promoter of Neurospora crassa. J Biol Rhythms 2014; 29:38-48. [PMID: 24492881 DOI: 10.1177/0748730413517981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The role of the frq gene in the Neurospora crassa circadian rhythm has been widely studied, but technical limitations have hindered a thorough analysis of frq circadian expression waveform. Through our experiments, we have shown an improved precision in defining Neurospora's circadian rhythm kinetics using a codon optimized firefly luciferase gene reporter linked to a frq promoter. In vivo examination of this real-time reporter has allowed for a better understanding of the relationship of the light responsive elements of the frq promoter to its circadian feedback components. We provide a detailed phase response curve showing the phase shifts induced by a light pulse applied at different points of the circadian cycle. Using the frq-luc reporter, we have found that a 12-h light:12-h dark cycle (12L:12D) results in a luciferase expression waveform that is more complex and higher in amplitude than that seen in free-running conditions of constant darkness (DD). When using a lighting regime more consistent with solar timing, rather than a square wave pattern, one observes a circadian waveform that is smoother, lower in amplitude, and different in phasing. Using dim light in place of darkness in these experiments also affects the resulting waveform and phasing. Our experiments illustrate Neurospora's circadian kinetics in greater detail than previous methods, providing further insight into the complex underlying biochemical, genetic, and physiological mechanisms underpinning the circadian oscillator.
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- Van D Gooch
- Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN, USA
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Kianianmomeni A. Cell-type specific light-mediated transcript regulation in the multicellular alga Volvox carteri. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:764. [PMID: 25194509 PMCID: PMC4167131 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri makes use of none less than 13 photoreceptors, which are mostly expressed in a cell-type specific manner. This gives reason to believe that trasncriptome pattern of each cell type could change differentially in response to environmental light. Here, the cell-type specific changes of various transcripts from different pathways in response to blue, red and far-red light were analyzed. RESULTS In response to different light qualities, distinct changes in transcript accumulation of genes encoding proteins involved in chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis, light-harvesting complexes, circadian clock and cell cycle control were observed. Namely, blue light tends to be effective to accumulate transcripts in the somatic cells; while red light leads to accumulate transcripts predominantly in the reproductive cells. Blue light also induced marked accumulation of two components of circadian rhythms only in the somatic cells, indicating that these clock-relevant components are affected by blue light in a cell-type specific manner. Further, we show that photosynthetic associated genes are regulated distinctly among cell types by different light qualities. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that Volvox uses different sophisticated cell-type specific light signaling pathways to modulate expression of genes involved in various cellular and metabolic pathways including circadian rhythms and photosynthesis in response to environmental light.
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- Arash Kianianmomeni
- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Plants, University of Bielefeld, Universitätsstr, 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
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Asarnow LD, Soehner AM, Harvey AG. Basic sleep and circadian science as building blocks for behavioral interventions: a translational approach for mood disorders. Behav Neurosci 2014; 128:360-70. [PMID: 24773429 DOI: 10.1037/a0035892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Sleep and circadian functioning has been of particular interest to researchers focused on improving treatments for psychiatric illness. The goal of the present paper is to highlight the exciting research that utilizes basic sleep and circadian science as building blocks for intervention in the mood disorders. The reviewed evidence suggests that the sleep and circadian systems are a) disrupted in the mood disorders and linked to symptoms, b) open systems that can be modified, c) the focus of interventions which have been developed to effectively treat sleep disturbance within mood disorders, and d) intimately linked with mood, such that improvements in sleep are associated with improvements in mood. Although significant positive treatment effects are evident, more research is needed to fill the gap in our basic understanding of the relationship between sleep and mood.
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Gooch VD, Johnson AE, Larrondo LF, Loros JJ, Dunlap JC. Bright to dim oscillatory response of the Neurospora circadian oscillator. J Biol Rhythms 2014; 29:49-59. [PMID: 24492882 PMCID: PMC4083493 DOI: 10.1177/0748730413517983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The fungus Neurospora crassa constitutes an important model system extensively used in chronobiology. Several studies have addressed how environmental cues, such as light, can reset or synchronize a circadian system. By means of an optimized firefly luciferase reporter gene and a controllable lighting system, we show that Neurospora can display molecular circadian rhythms in dim light when cultures receive bright light prior to entering dim light conditions. We refer to this behavior as the "bright to dim oscillatory response" (BDOR). The bright light treatment can be applied up to 76 h prior to dim exposure, and it can be as short as 15 min in duration. We have characterized this response in respect to the duration of the light pulse, the time of the light pulse before dim, the intensity of dim light, and the oscillation dynamics in dim light. Although the molecular mechanism that drives the BDOR remains obscure, these findings suggest that a long-term memory of bright light exists as part of the circadian molecular components. It is important to consider the ecological significance of such dim light responses in respect to how organisms naturally maintain their timing mechanism in moonlight.
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- Van D. Gooch
- Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota–Morris, Morris, MN, USA
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- Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota–Morris, Morris, MN, USA
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- Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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Brunet C, Chandrasekaran R, Barra L, Giovagnetti V, Corato F, Ruban AV. Spectral radiation dependent photoprotective mechanism in the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87015. [PMID: 24475212 PMCID: PMC3901731 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 12/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Phytoplankton, such as diatoms, experience great variations of photon flux density (PFD) and light spectrum along the marine water column. Diatoms have developed some rapidly-regulated photoprotective mechanisms, such as the xanthophyll cycle activation (XC) and the non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching (NPQ), to protect themselves from photooxidative damages caused by excess PFD. In this study, we investigate the role of blue fluence rate in combination with red radiation in shaping photoacclimative and protective responses in the coastal diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata. This diatom was acclimated to four spectral light conditions (blue, red, blue-red, blue-red-green), each of them provided with low and high PFD. Our results reveal that the increase in the XC pool size and the amplitude of NPQ is determined by the blue fluence rate experienced by cells, while cells require sensing red radiation to allow the development of these processes. Variations in the light spectrum and in the blue versus red radiation modulate either the photoprotective capacity, such as the activation of the diadinoxanthin-diatoxanthin xanthophyll cycle, the diadinoxanthin de-epoxidation rate and the capacity of non-photochemical quenching, or the pigment composition of this diatom. We propose that spectral composition of light has a key role on the ability of diatoms to finely balance light harvesting and photoprotective capacity.
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- Christophe Brunet
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plankton, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Napoli, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plankton, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Napoli, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plankton, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Napoli, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plankton, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Napoli, Italy
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plankton, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Napoli, Italy
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom
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Cuesta IH, Lahiri K, Lopez-Olmeda JF, Loosli F, Foulkes NS, Vallone D. Differential maturation of rhythmic clock gene expression during early development in medaka (Oryzias latipes). Chronobiol Int 2014; 31:468-78. [PMID: 24456338 DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2013.856316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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One key challenge for the field of chronobiology is to identify how circadian clock function emerges during early embryonic development. Teleosts such as the zebrafish are ideal models for studying circadian clock ontogeny since the entire process of development occurs ex utero in an optically transparent chorion. Medaka (Oryzias latipes) represents another powerful fish model for exploring early clock function with, like the zebrafish, many tools available for detailed genetic analysis. However, to date there have been no reports documenting circadian clock gene expression during medaka development. Here we have characterized the expression of key clock genes in various developmental stages and in adult tissues of medaka. As previously reported for other fish, light dark cycles are required for the emergence of clock gene expression rhythms in this species. While rhythmic expression of per and cry genes is detected very early during development and seems to be light driven, rhythmic clock and bmal expression appears much later around hatching time. Furthermore, the maturation of clock function seems to correlate with the appearance of rhythmic expression of these positive elements of the clock feedback loop. By accelerating development through elevated temperatures or by artificially removing the chorion, we show an earlier onset of rhythmicity in clock and bmal expression. Thus, differential maturation of key elements of the medaka clock mechanism depends on the developmental stage and the presence of the chorion.
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Kumar D, Singaravel M. Phase and period responses to short light pulses in a wild diurnal rodent,Funambulus pennanti. Chronobiol Int 2013; 31:320-7. [DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2013.851084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Wright KP, McHill AW, Birks BR, Griffin BR, Rusterholz T, Chinoy ED. Entrainment of the human circadian clock to the natural light-dark cycle. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1554-8. [PMID: 23910656 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 420] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Revised: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The electric light is one of the most important human inventions. Sleep and other daily rhythms in physiology and behavior, however, evolved in the natural light-dark cycle [1], and electrical lighting is thought to have disrupted these rhythms. Yet how much the age of electrical lighting has altered the human circadian clock is unknown. Here we show that electrical lighting and the constructed environment is associated with reduced exposure to sunlight during the day, increased light exposure after sunset, and a delayed timing of the circadian clock as compared to a summer natural 14 hr 40 min:9 hr 20 min light-dark cycle camping. Furthermore, we find that after exposure to only natural light, the internal circadian clock synchronizes to solar time such that the beginning of the internal biological night occurs at sunset and the end of the internal biological night occurs before wake time just after sunrise. In addition, we find that later chronotypes show larger circadian advances when exposed to only natural light, making the timing of their internal clocks in relation to the light-dark cycle more similar to earlier chronotypes. These findings have important implications for understanding how modern light exposure patterns contribute to late sleep schedules and may disrupt sleep and circadian clocks.
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- Kenneth P Wright
- Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0354, USA.
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Flôres DEFL, Tomotani BM, Tachinardi P, Oda GA, Valentinuzzi VS. Modeling natural photic entrainment in a subterranean rodent (Ctenomys aff. knighti), the Tuco-Tuco. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68243. [PMID: 23874562 PMCID: PMC3707898 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Subterranean rodents spend most of the day inside underground tunnels, where there is little daily change in environmental variables. Our observations of tuco-tucos (Ctenomys aff. knighti) in a field enclosure indicated that these animals perceive the aboveground light-dark cycle by several bouts of light-exposure at irregular times during the light hours of the day. To assess whether such light-dark pattern acts as an entraining agent of the circadian clock, we first constructed in laboratory the Phase Response Curve for 1 h light-pulses (1000lux). Its shape is qualitatively similar to other curves reported in the literature and to our knowledge it is the first Phase Response Curve of a subterranean rodent. Computer simulations were performed with a non-linear limit-cycle oscillator subjected to a simple model of the light regimen experienced by tuco-tucos. Results showed that synchronization is achieved even by a simple regimen of a single daily light pulse scattered uniformly along the light hours of the day. Natural entrainment studies benefit from integrated laboratory, field and computational approaches.
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- Danilo E. F. L. Flôres
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica-CRILAR, Entre Rios y Mendoza s/n, (5301) Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina
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Mracek P, Pagano C, Fröhlich N, Idda ML, Cuesta IH, Lopez-Olmeda JF, Sánchez-Vázquez FJ, Vallone D, Foulkes NS. ERK Signaling Regulates Light-Induced Gene Expression via D-Box Enhancers in a Differential, Wavelength-Dependent Manner. PLoS One 2013; 8:e67858. [PMID: 23840779 PMCID: PMC3694018 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The day-night and seasonal cycles are dominated by regular changes in the intensity as well as spectral composition of sunlight. In aquatic environments the spectrum of sunlight is also strongly affected by the depth and quality of water. During evolution, organisms have adopted various key strategies in order to adapt to these changes, including the development of clocks and photoreceptor mechanisms. These mechanisms enable the detection and anticipation of regular changes in lighting conditions and thereby direct an appropriate physiological response. In teleosts, a growing body of evidence points to most cell types possessing complex photoreceptive systems. However, our understanding of precisely how these systems are regulated and in turn dictate changes in gene expression remains incomplete. In this manuscript we attempt to unravel this complexity by comparing the effects of two specific wavelengths of light upon signal transduction and gene expression regulatory mechanisms in zebrafish cells. We reveal a significant difference in the kinetics of light-induced gene expression upon blue and red light exposure. Importantly, both red and blue light-induced gene expression relies upon D-box enhancer promoter elements. Using pharmacological and genetic approaches we demonstrate that the ERK/MAPK pathway acts as a negative regulator of blue but not red light activated transcription. Thus, we reveal that D-box-driven gene expression is regulated via ERK/MAPK signaling in a strongly wavelength-dependent manner.
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- Philipp Mracek
- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
- * E-mail: (NSF); (DV)
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- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany
- * E-mail: (NSF); (DV)
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Moritz GL, Lim NTL, Neitz M, Peichl L, Dominy NJ. Expression and Evolution of Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins in Colugos: A Nocturnal Lineage That Informs Debate on Primate Origins. Evol Biol 2013; 40:542-553. [PMID: 24293738 PMCID: PMC3832777 DOI: 10.1007/s11692-013-9230-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2012] [Accepted: 03/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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A nocturnal activity pattern is central to almost all hypotheses on the adaptive origins of primates. This enduring view has been challenged in recent years on the basis of variation in the opsin genes of nocturnal primates. A correspondence between the opsin genes and activity patterns of species in Euarchonta-the superordinal group that includes the orders Primates, Dermoptera (colugos), and Scandentia (treeshrews)-could prove instructive, yet the basic biology of the dermopteran visual system is practically unknown. Here we show that the eye of the Sunda colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) lacks a tapetum lucidum and has an avascular retina, and we report on the expression and spectral sensitivity of cone photopigments. We found that Sunda colugos have intact short wavelength sensitive (S-) and long wavelength sensitive (L-) opsin genes, and that both opsins are expressed in cone photoreceptors of the retina. The inferred peak spectral sensitivities are 451 and 562 nm, respectively. In line with adaptation to nocturnal vision, cone densities are low. Surprisingly, a majority of S-cones coexpress some L-opsin. We also show that the ratio of rates of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions of exon 1 of the S-opsin gene is indicative of purifying selection. Taken together, our results suggest that natural selection has favored a functional S-opsin in a nocturnal lineage for at least 45 million years. Accordingly, a nocturnal activity pattern remains the most likely ancestral character state of euprimates.
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- Gillian L. Moritz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, The Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Box 356485, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, The Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
- Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, 6047 Silsby Hall, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
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Sinam B, Sharma S, Thakurdas P, Kasture M, Shivagaje A, Joshi D. Dim scotopic illumination accelerates the reentrainment following simulated jetlags in a diurnal experimental model, Drosophila. Commun Integr Biol 2013; 6:e22279. [PMID: 23802034 PMCID: PMC3689565 DOI: 10.4161/cib.22279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Revised: 09/15/2012] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Olmedo M, O’Neill JS, Edgar RS, Valekunja UK, Reddy AB, Merrow M. Circadian regulation of olfaction and an evolutionarily conserved, nontranscriptional marker in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:20479-84. [PMID: 23185015 PMCID: PMC3528576 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211705109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Circadian clocks provide a temporal structure to processes from gene expression to behavior in organisms from all phyla. Most clocks are synchronized to the environment by alternations of light and dark. However, many organisms experience only muted daily environmental cycles due to their lightless spatial niches (e.g., caves or soil). This has led to speculation that they may dispense with the daily clock. However, recent reports contradict this notion, showing various behavioral and molecular rhythms in Caenorhabditis elegans and in blind cave fish. Based on the ecology of nematodes, we applied low-amplitude temperature cycles to synchronize populations of animals through development. This entrainment regime reveals rhythms on multiple levels: in olfactory cued behavior, in RNA and protein abundance, and in the oxidation state of a broadly conserved peroxiredoxin protein. Our work links the nematode clock with that of other clock model systems; it also emphasizes the importance of daily rhythms in sensory functions that are likely to impact on organism fitness and population structure.
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- Maria Olmedo
- Department of Molecular Chronobiology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen, 9474 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, 80336 Munich, Germany; and
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Metabolic Science, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Metabolic Science, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Metabolic Science, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Metabolic Science, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Chronobiology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen, 9474 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, 80336 Munich, Germany; and
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