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Lincoln K, Zhou J, Oster H, de Assis LVM. Circadian Gating of Thyroid Hormone Action in Hepatocytes. Cells 2024; 13:1038. [PMID: 38920666 PMCID: PMC11202020 DOI: 10.3390/cells13121038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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Thyroid hormones, thyroxin (T4) and the biologically active triiodothyronine (T3), play important roles in liver metabolic regulation, including fatty acid biosynthesis, beta-oxidation, and cholesterol homeostasis. These functions position TH signaling as a potential target for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Elevated T3 levels in the circulation are associated with increased hepatic lipid turnover, which is also under the control of the circadian clock system. In this study, we developed a cell system to study the impact of hepatocyte circadian rhythms on the metabolic response to T3 treatment under control and steatotic conditions. Synchronized AML-12 circadian reporter hepatocytes were treated with T3 at different circadian phases and metabolic conditions. T3 treatment increased metabolic activity in a dose-independent fashion and had no significant effect on circadian rhythms in AML-12 cells. T3 had marked time-of-treatment-dependent effects on metabolic transcript expression. Steatosis induction altered metabolic transcript expression in AML-12 cells. In this condition, the circadian rhythm period was lengthened, and this effect was independent of T3. Under steatotic conditions, T3 had marked time-of-treatment dependent effects on metabolic transcript expression, which differed from those observed under control conditions. These findings reveal a time-of-day-dependent response of hepatocytes to T3, which is further modulated by the metabolic state. Our data suggest that time has a strong influence on liver TH action, which might be considered when treating MASLD.
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- Karla Lincoln
- Institute of Neurobiology, Center of Brain Behavior & Metabolism, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany; (K.L.); (J.Z.)
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Center of Brain Behavior & Metabolism, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany; (K.L.); (J.Z.)
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Center of Brain Behavior & Metabolism, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany; (K.L.); (J.Z.)
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Center of Brain Behavior & Metabolism, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany; (K.L.); (J.Z.)
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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Mercadante S, Bellastella A. Chrono-Endocrinology in Clinical Practice: A Journey from Pathophysiological to Therapeutic Aspects. Life (Basel) 2024; 14:546. [PMID: 38792568 PMCID: PMC11121809 DOI: 10.3390/life14050546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
Abstract
This review was aimed at collecting the knowledge on the pathophysiological and clinical aspects of endocrine rhythms and their implications in clinical practice, derived from the published literature and from some personal experiences on this topic. We chose to review, according to the PRISMA guidelines, the results of original and observational studies, reviews, meta-analyses and case reports published up to March 2024. Thus, after summarizing the general aspects of biological rhythms, we will describe the characteristics of several endocrine rhythms and the consequences of their disruption, paying particular attention to the implications in clinical practice. Rhythmic endocrine secretions, like other physiological rhythms, are genetically determined and regulated by a central hypothalamic CLOCK located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which links the timing of the rhythms to independent clocks, in a hierarchical organization for the regulation of physiology and behavior. However, some environmental factors, such as daily cycles of light/darkness, sleep/wake, and timing of food intake, may influence the rhythm characteristics. Endocrine rhythms are involved in important physiological processes and their disruption may cause several disorders and also cancer. Thus, it is very important to prevent disruptions of endocrine rhythms and to restore a previously altered rhythm by an early corrective chronotherapy.
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- Department of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80131 Naples, Italy;
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Ji C, Ou Y, Yu W, Lv J, Zhang F, Li H, Gu Z, Li J, Zhong Z, Wang H. Thyroid-stimulating hormone-thyroid hormone signaling contributes to circadian regulation through repressing clock2/npas2 in zebrafish. J Genet Genomics 2024; 51:61-74. [PMID: 37328030 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is important for the thyroid gland, development, growth, and metabolism. Defects in TSH production or the thyrotrope cells within the pituitary gland cause congenital hypothyroidism (CH), resulting in growth retardation and neurocognitive impairment. While human TSH is known to display rhythmicity, the molecular mechanisms underlying the circadian regulation of TSH and the effects of TSH-thyroid hormone (TH) signaling on the circadian clock remain elusive. Here we show that TSH, thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and tshba display rhythmicity in both larval and adult zebrafish and tshba is regulated directly by the circadian clock via both E'-box and D-box. Zebrafish tshba-/- mutants manifest congenital hypothyroidism, with the characteristics of low levels of T4 and T3 and growth retardation. Loss or overexpression of tshba alters the rhythmicity of locomotor activities and expression of core circadian clock genes and hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis-related genes. Furthermore, TSH-TH signaling regulates clock2/npas2 via the thyroid response element (TRE) in its promoter, and transcriptome analysis reveals extensive functions of Tshba in zebrafish. Together, our results demonstrate that zebrafish tshba is a direct target of the circadian clock and in turn plays critical roles in circadian regulation along with other functions.
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- Cheng Ji
- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
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Papantoniou K, Konrad P, Haghayegh S, Strohmaier S, Eliassen AH, Schernhammer E. Rotating Night Shift Work, Sleep, and Thyroid Cancer Risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:5673. [PMID: 38067376 PMCID: PMC10705158 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15235673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Night shift work has been associated with breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer, but evidence on other types of cancer is limited. We prospectively evaluated the association of rotating night shift work, sleep duration, and sleep difficulty with thyroid cancer risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2). We assessed rotating night shift work duration (years) at baseline and throughout follow-up (1989-2015) and sleep characteristics in 2001. Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for potential confounders, were used to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for (a) shift work duration, (b) sleep duration, and (c) difficulty falling or staying asleep. We stratified the analyses of night shift work by sleep duration and sleep difficulty. Over 26 years of follow-up, 588 incident cases were identified among 114,534 women in the NHS2 cohort. We observed no association between night shift work and the risk of thyroid cancer. Difficulty falling or staying asleep was suggestively associated with a higher incidence of thyroid cancer when reported sometimes (HR 1.26, 95% CI 0.95, 1.66) and all or most of the time (HR 1.35, 95% CI 1.00, 1.81). Night shift workers (10+ years) with sleep difficulty all or most of the time (HR 1.47; 0.58-3.73) or with >7 h of sleep duration (HR 2.17; 95% CI, 1.21-3.92) had a higher risk of thyroid cancer. We found modest evidence for an increased risk of thyroid cancer in relation to sleep difficulty, which was more pronounced among night shift workers.
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- Kyriaki Papantoniou
- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (P.K.); (S.S.); (E.S.)
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (P.K.); (S.S.); (E.S.)
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (S.H.); (A.H.E.)
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (P.K.); (S.S.); (E.S.)
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (S.H.); (A.H.E.)
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (P.K.); (S.S.); (E.S.)
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (S.H.); (A.H.E.)
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Putilov AA, Budkevich EV, Budkevich RO. A Review of Evidence for the Involvement of the Circadian Clock Genes into Malignant Transformation of Thyroid Tissue. Clocks Sleep 2023; 5:384-398. [PMID: 37489438 PMCID: PMC10366820 DOI: 10.3390/clockssleep5030029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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(1) Background: In 2013, the results of a pioneer study on abnormalities in the levels and circadian rhythmicity of expression of circadian clock genes in cancerous thyroid nodules was published. In the following years, new findings suggesting the involvement of circadian clockwork dysfunction into malignant transformation of thyroid tissue were gradually accumulating. This systematic review provides an update on existing evidence regarding the association of these genes with thyroid tumorigenesis. (2) Methods: Two bibliographic databases (Scopus and PubMed) were searched for articles from inception to 20 March 2023. The reference lists of previously published (nonsystematic) reviews were also hand-searched for additional relevant studies. (3) Results: Nine studies published between 2013 and 2022 were selected. In total, 9 of 12 tested genes were found to be either up- or downregulated. The list of such genes includes all families of core circadian clock genes that are the key components of three transcriptional-translational feedback loops of the circadian clock mechanism (BMAL1, CLOCK, NPAS2, RORα, REV-ERBα, PERs, CRYs, and DECs). (4) Conclusions: Examination of abnormalities in the levels and circadian rhythmicity of expression of circadian clock genes in thyroid tissue can help to reduce the rate of inadequate differential preoperative diagnosis for thyroid carcinoma.
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- Arcady A Putilov
- Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology and Biophysics, North-Caucasus Federal University, 355029 Stavropol, Russia
- Laboratory of Sleep/Wake Neurobiology, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117865 Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology and Biophysics, North-Caucasus Federal University, 355029 Stavropol, Russia
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- Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology and Biophysics, North-Caucasus Federal University, 355029 Stavropol, Russia
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Jeong H, Chae CH, Lee JH, Chong HW. The relationship between shift work pattern and thyroid stimulating hormone in female workers. Ann Occup Environ Med 2023; 35:e14. [PMID: 37614333 PMCID: PMC10442579 DOI: 10.35371/aoem.2023.35.e14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023] Open
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Background Shift work is known to cause changes in the circadian rhythm of the human body and adversely affect not only physical health but also mental health. Some studies have demonstrated the correlation between shift work and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), a hormone that changes according to the diurnal rhythm, but few studies have reported the different TSH levels according to the shift work type. This study aimed to investigate changes in TSH according to the shift work type. Methods This study included 1,318 female workers who had a medical checkup at a university hospital in Changwon from 2015 to 2019. Shift work types were classified as non-shift work, regular 2 shifts, and irregular three shifts, and a TSH ≥ 4.2 mIU/L was defined as abnormal. A general linear model (GLM) was used to compare the TSH levels and the risk of subclinical hypothyroidism in each year, and a binary logistic analysis was performed using a generalized estimation equation (GEE) to compare the risk of subclinical hypothyroidism over the 5-year period. Results Of the 1,318 participants included in this study, 363, 711, and 244 were non-shift, two-shift, and irregular three-shift workers, respectively. In the GEE analysis, after adjusting for age, body mass index, smoking, and alcohol consumption, the odds ratios (ORs) were 1.81 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.15-2.86; p = 0.011) in 2 shifts and 2.02 (95% CI: 1.23-3.32; p = 0.006) in irregular three shifts, compared to non-shift. Conclusions Our results showed that shift work had a higher risk of subclinical hypothyroidism than non-shift work and that there was a significant difference in the risk of subclinical hypothyroidism according to the shift work type. These findings suggest that the shift work type can be considered in future thyroid function tests and evaluations.
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- Hun Jeong
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea
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Zhang X, Lai Y, Bai X, Wu B, Xiang W, Zhang C, Geng G, Miao W, Xia Q, Wu Q, Yang H, Wang Y, Tian W, Cao Y, Liu X, Li H, Tian Y, Song Z, Zhao Z, Huang Z, Cheng X, Han X, Li Y, Shi B. Determining the spatial non-stationarity underlying social and natural environment in thyroid cancer in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 870:162009. [PMID: 36737014 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Light at night (LAN) is a physiological environmental factor related to thyroid cancer (TC). The spatial relationship between the number of TC incident cases, LAN, air pollution and other macro social factors and stationarity needs to be further examined to provide evidence for regional control of TC. METHODS Spatial econometrics methods for spatial nonstationarity were used to explore the impacts of LAN, air pollutants, economic factors, and population size on the number of TC incident cases in 182 Chinese prefecture-level cities and the local coefficients were further tested for nonstationarity. Temporally weighted regression (TWR), geographically weighted regression (GWR), and geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) were compared in this study for model selection. RESULTS Based on the ordinary least squares (OLS), LAN, air pollutants, and urbanization all significantly affected the number of TC incident cases. GWR had the best goodness of fit, and the coefficients of all the variables passed the nonstationarity test. The strong positive impact of LAN was mainly concentrated in North China, air pollutants in Central China and neighboring regions, and urbanization in the eastern coast of China. CONCLUSIONS The locational factors of the prefecture-level city influence the spatial pattern of the number of TC incident cases. Governments should pay attention to this influence, adhere to the Health in All Policies principle, and formulate region-specific policies based on regional characteristics, which this study provides updated evidence for.
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- Xiyu Zhang
- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Social Medicine, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- The second affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- The second affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Social Medicine, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Social Medicine, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- The second affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Research Center of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
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- Department of Economics, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
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Miro C, Docimo A, Barrea L, Verde L, Cernea S, Sojat AS, Marina LV, Docimo G, Colao A, Dentice M, Muscogiuri G. "Time" for obesity-related cancer: The role of the circadian rhythm in cancer pathogenesis and treatment. Semin Cancer Biol 2023; 91:99-109. [PMID: 36893964 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2023.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
Abstract
The circadian rhythm is regulated by an intrinsic time-tracking system, composed both of a central and a peripheral clock, which influences the cycles of activities and sleep of an individual over 24 h. At the molecular level, the circadian rhythm begins when two basic helix-loop-helix/Per-ARNT-SIM (bHLH-PAS) proteins, BMAL-1 and CLOCK, interact with each other to produce BMAL-1/CLOCK heterodimers in the cytoplasm. The BMAL-1/CLOCK target genes encode for the repressor components of the clock, cryptochrome (Cry1 and Cry2) and the Period proteins (Per1, Per2 and Per3). It has been recently demonstrated that the disruption of circadian rhythm is associated with an increased risk of developing obesity and obesity-related diseases. In addition, it has been demonstrated that the disruption of the circadian rhythm plays a key role in tumorigenesis. Further, an association between the circadian rhythm disruptions and an increased incidence and progression of several types of cancer (e.g., breast, prostate, colorectal and thyroid cancer) has been found. As the perturbation of circadian rhythm has adverse metabolic consequences (e.g., obesity) and at the same time tumor promoter functions, this manuscript has the aim to report how the aberrant circadian rhythms affect the development and prognosis of different types of obesity-related cancers (breast, prostate, colon rectal and thyroid cancer) focusing on both human studies and on molecular aspects.
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- Caterina Miro
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Unità di Endocrinologia, Diabetologia ed Andrologia, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università Telematica Pegaso, 80143 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University of Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mures/Internal Medicine I, Târgu Mureş, Romania; Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Outpatient Unit, Emergency County Clinical Hospital, Târgu Mureş, Romania
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- National Centre for Infertility and Endocrinology of Gender, Clinic for Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
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- National Centre for Infertility and Endocrinology of Gender, Clinic for Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
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- Department of Medical and Advanced Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Unità di Endocrinologia, Diabetologia ed Andrologia, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy; UNESCO Chair "Education for Health and Sustainable Development", University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Unità di Endocrinologia, Diabetologia ed Andrologia, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy; UNESCO Chair "Education for Health and Sustainable Development", University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
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Liang JJ, Feng WJ, Li R, Xu RT, Liang YL. Analysis of the value and safety of thyroid-stimulating hormone in the clinical efficacy of patients with thyroid cancer. World J Clin Cases 2023; 11:1058-1067. [PMID: 36874431 PMCID: PMC9979299 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i5.1058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Thyroid cancer (TC) is a common malignant tumor in the endocrine system. In recent years, the incidence and recurrence rates of TC have been raising due to increasing work pressure and irregular lifestyles. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is a specific parameter for thyroid function screening. This study aims to explore the clinical value of TSH in regulating the progression of TC, so as to find a breakthrough for the early diagnosis and treatment of TC.
AIM To explore the value and safety of TSH in the clinical efficacy of patients with TC.
METHODS 75 patients with TC admitted to the Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery of our hospital from September 2019 to September 2021 were selected as the observation group, and 50 healthy subjects were selected as the control group during the same period. The control group was treated with conventional thyroid replacement therapy, and the observation group was treated with TSH suppression therapy. The soluble interleukin (IL)-2 receptor (sIL-2R), IL-17, IL-35 levels, free triiodothyronine (FT3), free tetraiodothyronine (FT4), CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD44V6, and tumor supplied group of factor (TSGF) levels were observed in the two groups. The occurrence of adverse reactions was compared between the two groups.
RESULTS After treatment with different therapies, the levels of FT3, FT4, CD3+, and CD4+ in the observation group and the control group were higher than those before treatment, while the levels of CD8+, CD44V6, and TSGF were lower than those before treatment, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). More importantly, the levels of sIL-2R and IL-17 in the observation group were lower than those in the control group after 4 wk of treatment, while the levels of IL-35 were higher than those in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The levels of FT3, FT4, CD3 +, and CD4 + in the observation group were higher than those in the control group, and the levels of CD8+, CD44V6, and TSGF were lower than those in the control group. There was no significant difference in the overall incidence rate of adverse reactions between the two groups (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSION TSH suppression therapy can improve the immune function of patients with TC, lower the CD44V6 and TSGF levels, and improve serum FT3 and FT4 levels. It demonstrated excellent clinical efficacy and a good safety profile.
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- Jian-Jing Liang
- Department of Medicine, Hebei University, Baoding 071000, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of General Surgery, the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of Cardiology, First Hospital of Xinji City, Xinji 052300, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of General Surgery, the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, Hebei Province, China
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- Department of General Surgery, the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, Hebei Province, China
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Artificial Dim Light at Night during Pregnancy Can Affect Hormonal and Metabolic Rhythms in Rat Offspring. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232314544. [PMID: 36498872 PMCID: PMC9740453 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232314544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Artificial light at night (ALAN) is considered an environmental risk factor that can interfere with the circadian control of the endocrine system and metabolism. We studied the impact of ALAN during pregnancy on the hormonal and biochemical parameters in rat pups at postnatal (P) days P3, P10, and P20. Control dams (CTRL) were kept in a standard light-dark regime, and ALAN dams were exposed to dim ALAN (<2 lx) during the whole pregnancy. A plasma melatonin rhythm was found in all CTRL groups, whereas in ALAN pups, melatonin was not rhythmic at P3, and its amplitude was lowered at P10; no differences were found between groups at P20. Plasma corticosterone was rhythmic at P20 in both groups, with decreased mesor in ALAN pups. Plasma thyroid hormones exhibited an inconsistent developmental pattern, and vasopressin levels were suppressed at the beginning of the dark phase at P20 in ALAN compared to CTRL. Glucose and cholesterol showed significant daily rhythms in CTRL but not in ALAN offspring at P3. Exposure to ALAN during pregnancy disturbed the development of daily rhythms in measured hormones and metabolites, suggesting that ALAN during pregnancy can act as an endocrine disruptor that can interfere with the normal development of the progeny.
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Niu Y, Tang S. Circadian clock-mediated nuclear receptors in cancer. J Cell Physiol 2022; 237:4428-4442. [PMID: 36250982 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.30905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Circadian system coordinates the daily periodicity of physiological and biochemical functions to adapt to environmental changes. Circadian disruption has been identified to increase the risk of cancer and promote cancer progression, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. And further mechanistic understanding of the crosstalk between clock components and cancer is urgent to achieve clinical anticancer benefits from chronochemotherapy. Recent studies discover that several nuclear receptors regulating circadian clock, also play crucial roles in mediating multiple cancer processes. In this review, we aim to summarize the latest developments of clock-related nuclear receptors in cancer biology and dissect mechanistic insights into how nuclear receptors coordinate with circadian clock to regulate tumorigenesis and cancer treatment. A better understanding of circadian clock-related nuclear receptors in cancer could help prevent tumorigenesis and improve anticancer efficacy.
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- Ya Niu
- Cancer Institute, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Cancer Institute, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai, China
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Prospects of Testing Diurnal Profiles of Expressions of TSH-R and Circadian Clock Genes in Thyrocytes for Identification of Preoperative Biomarkers for Thyroid Carcinoma. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232012208. [PMID: 36293065 PMCID: PMC9603503 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232012208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Thyroid Nodules (TN) are frequent but mostly benign, and postoperative rate of benign TN attains the values from 70% to 90%. Therefore, there is an urgent need for identification of reliable preoperative diagnosis markers for patients with indeterminate thyroid cytology. In this study, an earlier unexplored design of research on preoperative biomarkers for thyroid malignancies was proposed. Evaluation of reported results of studies addressing the links of thyroid cancer to the circadian clockwork dysfunctions and abnormal activities of Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and its receptor (TSH-R) suggested diagnostic significance of such links. However, there is still a gap in studies of interrelationships between diurnal profiles of expression of circadian clock genes and TSH-R in indeterminate thyroid tissue exposed to different concentrations of TSH. These interrelationships might be investigated in future in vitro experiments on benign and malignant thyrocytes cultivated under normal and challenged TSH levels. Their design requires simultaneous measurement of diurnal profiles of expression of both circadian clock genes and TSH-R. Experimental results might help to bridge previous studies of preoperative biomarkers for thyroid carcinoma exploring diagnostic value of diurnal profiles of serum TSH levels, expression of TSH-R, and expression of circadian clock genes.
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Moeller JS, Bever SR, Finn SL, Phumsatitpong C, Browne MF, Kriegsfeld LJ. Circadian Regulation of Hormonal Timing and the Pathophysiology of Circadian Dysregulation. Compr Physiol 2022; 12:4185-4214. [PMID: 36073751 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c220018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Circadian rhythms are endogenously generated, daily patterns of behavior and physiology that are essential for optimal health and disease prevention. Disruptions to circadian timing are associated with a host of maladies, including metabolic disease and obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and mental health disturbances. The circadian timing system is hierarchically organized, with a master circadian clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the anterior hypothalamus and subordinate clocks throughout the CNS and periphery. The SCN receives light information via a direct retinal pathway, synchronizing the master clock to environmental time. At the cellular level, circadian rhythms are ubiquitous, with rhythms generated by interlocking, autoregulatory transcription-translation feedback loops. At the level of the SCN, tight cellular coupling maintains rhythms even in the absence of environmental input. The SCN, in turn, communicates timing information via the autonomic nervous system and hormonal signaling. This signaling couples individual cellular oscillators at the tissue level in extra-SCN brain loci and the periphery and synchronizes subordinate clocks to external time. In the modern world, circadian disruption is widespread due to limited exposure to sunlight during the day, exposure to artificial light at night, and widespread use of light-emitting electronic devices, likely contributing to an increase in the prevalence, and the progression, of a host of disease states. The present overview focuses on the circadian control of endocrine secretions, the significance of rhythms within key endocrine axes for typical, homeostatic functioning, and implications for health and disease when dysregulated. © 2022 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 12: 1-30, 2022.
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- Jacob S Moeller
- Graduate Group in Endocrinology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Graduate Group in Endocrinology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.,The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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de Assis LVM, Harder L, Lacerda JT, Parsons R, Kaehler M, Cascorbi I, Nagel I, Rawashdeh O, Mittag J, Oster H. Rewiring of liver diurnal transcriptome rhythms by triiodothyronine (T 3) supplementation. eLife 2022; 11:79405. [PMID: 35894384 PMCID: PMC9391036 DOI: 10.7554/elife.79405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Diurnal (i.e., 24 hr) physiological rhythms depend on transcriptional programs controlled by a set of circadian clock genes/proteins. Systemic factors like humoral and neuronal signals, oscillations in body temperature, and food intake align physiological circadian rhythms with external time. Thyroid hormones (THs) are major regulators of circadian clock target processes such as energy metabolism, but little is known about how fluctuations in TH levels affect the circadian coordination of tissue physiology. In this study, a high triiodothyronine (T3) state was induced in mice by supplementing T3 in the drinking water, which affected body temperature, and oxygen consumption in a time-of-day-dependent manner. A 24-hr transcriptome profiling of liver tissue identified 37 robustly and time independently T3-associated transcripts as potential TH state markers in the liver. Such genes participated in xenobiotic transport, lipid and xenobiotic metabolism. We also identified 10–15% of the liver transcriptome as rhythmic in control and T3 groups, but only 4% of the liver transcriptome (1033 genes) were rhythmic across both conditions – amongst these, several core clock genes. In-depth rhythm analyses showed that most changes in transcript rhythms were related to mesor (50%), followed by amplitude (10%), and phase (10%). Gene set enrichment analysis revealed TH state-dependent reorganization of metabolic processes such as lipid and glucose metabolism. At high T3 levels, we observed weakening or loss of rhythmicity for transcripts associated with glucose and fatty acid metabolism, suggesting increased hepatic energy turnover. In summary, we provide evidence that tonic changes in T3 levels restructure the diurnal liver metabolic transcriptome independent of local molecular circadian clocks. Many environmental conditions, including light and temperature, vary with a daily rhythm that affects how animals interact with their surroundings. Indeed, most species have developed so-called circadian clocks: internal molecular timers that cycle approximately every 24 hours and regulate many bodily functions, including digestion, energy metabolism and sleep. The energy metabolism of the liver – the chemical reactions that occur in the organ to produce energy from nutrients – is controlled both by the circadian clock system, and by the hormones produced by a gland in the neck called the thyroid. However, the interaction between these two regulators is poorly understood. To address this question, de Assis, Harder et al. elevated the levels of thyroid hormones in mice by adding these hormones to their drinking water. Studying these mice showed that, although thyroid hormone levels were good indicators of how much energy mice burn in a day, they do not reflect daily fluctuations in metabolic rate faithfully. Additionally, de Assis, Harder et al. showed that elevating T3, the active form of thyroid hormone, led to a rewiring of the daily rhythms at which genes were turned on and off in the liver, affecting the daily timing of processes including fat and cholesterol metabolism. This occurred without changing the circadian clock of the liver directly. De Assis, Harder et al.’s results indicate that time-of-day critically affects the action of thyroid hormones in the liver. This suggests that patients with hypothyroidism, who produce low levels of thyroid hormones, may benefit from considering time-of-day as a factor in disease diagnosis, therapy and, potentially, prevention. Further data on the rhythmic regulation of thyroid action in humans, including in patients with hypothyroidism, are needed to further develop this approach.
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes - Molecular Endocrinology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Neurobiology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Circadian clock, diurnal glucose metabolic rhythm, and dawn phenomenon. Trends Neurosci 2022; 45:471-482. [PMID: 35466006 PMCID: PMC9117496 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2022.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The circadian clock provides cue-independent anticipatory signals for diurnal rhythms of baseline glucose levels and glucose tolerance. The central circadian clock is located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which comprises primarily GABAergic neurons. The SCN clock regulates physiological diurnal rhythms of endogenous glucose production (EGP) and hepatic insulin sensitivity through neurohumoral mechanisms. Disruption of the molecular circadian clock is associated with the extended dawn phenomenon (DP) in type 2 diabetes (T2D), referring to hyperglycemia in the early morning without nocturnal hypoglycemia. The DP affects nearly half of patients with diabetes, with poorly defined etiology and a lack of targeted therapy. Here we review neural and secreted factors in physiological diurnal rhythms of glucose metabolism and their pathological implications for the DP.
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Zhang Y, Wu W, Liu Y, Wang X, Guan Y, Jia L. Analysis of basal serum TSH, FT3, and FT4 levels based on age, sampling time in women with infertility. BMC WOMENS HEALTH 2021; 21:317. [PMID: 34454485 PMCID: PMC8403368 DOI: 10.1186/s12905-021-01453-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Background To analyze the characteristics of basal thyroid hormone levels in infertile women consulting for assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment. Methods This was a retrospective study. Serum TSH, FT3 and FT4 levels of women seeking ART consultation were tested routinely. Analyses were performed based on age and sampling time. One-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test was used to compare the continuous data among the groups, and the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test was used to compare categorical data where appropriate. Results A total of 6426 women were initially included in the study. After exclusion criteria were applied, the remaining 4126 women were categorized into different groups. The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism significantly decreased with age and sampling time, from 21.09 to 11.91% and from 28.57 to 10.67%, respectively (P < 0.001, respectively). Mean serum TSH, FT3, and FT4 levels decreased significantly with age (P = 0.017, < 0.001, < 0.001, respectively). In the context of sampling time, TSH levels from early in the morning were significantly higher (P < 0.001), while FT4 and FT3 levels were similar in different groups (P = 0.258, 0.300, respectively). Conclusions The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism significantly decreased with increasing age and sampling time, as did the serum TSH levels. Even though, the establishment of reference interval of TSH level based on age or sampling time was not recommended. Full consideration of age and sampling time should be carefully taken before initiation of treatment.
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- Yuchao Zhang
- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 7 Kangfuqian Street, Erqi, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 7 Kangfuqian Street, Erqi, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 7 Kangfuqian Street, Erqi, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 7 Kangfuqian Street, Erqi, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 7 Kangfuqian Street, Erqi, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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- Neonatal Screening Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Kim BH, Joo Y, Kim MS, Choe HK, Tong Q, Kwon O. Effects of Intermittent Fasting on the Circulating Levels and Circadian Rhythms of Hormones. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul) 2021; 36:745-756. [PMID: 34474513 PMCID: PMC8419605 DOI: 10.3803/enm.2021.405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Intermittent fasting has become an increasingly popular strategy in losing weight and associated reduction in obesity-related medical complications. Overwhelming studies support metabolic improvements from intermittent fasting in blood glucose levels, cardiac and brain function, and other health benefits, in addition to weight loss. However, concerns have also been raised on side effects including muscle loss, ketosis, and electrolyte imbalance. Of particular concern, the effect of intermittent fasting on hormonal circadian rhythms has received little attention. Given the known importance of circadian hormonal changes to normal physiology, potential detrimental effects by dysregulation of hormonal changes deserve careful discussions. In this review, we describe the changes in circadian rhythms of hormones caused by intermittent fasting. We covered major hormones commonly pathophysiologically involved in clinical endocrinology, including insulin, thyroid hormones, and glucocorticoids. Given that intermittent fasting could alter both the level and frequency of hormone secretion, decisions on practicing intermittent fasting should take more considerations on potential detrimental consequences versus beneficial effects pertaining to individual health conditions.
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- Bo Hye Kim
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul,
Korea
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea
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- Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul,
Korea
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul,
Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu,
Korea
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- Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine and Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School of UTHealth, and MD Anderson Cancer Center & UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX,
USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul,
Korea
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul,
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Lou X, Wang H, Tu Y, Tan W, Jiang C, Sun J, Bao Z. Alterations of sleep quality and circadian rhythm genes expression in elderly thyroid nodule patients and risks associated with thyroid malignancy. Sci Rep 2021; 11:13682. [PMID: 34211057 PMCID: PMC8249375 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93106-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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To study the alterations of sleep quality and circadian rhythm genes expressions upon elderly thyroid nodule patients, the risk factors associated with thyroid malignancies, and the potential relationship involved. The elderly people enrolled in our study were divided into three groups according to the thyroid histopathology: malignant nodule group, benign nodule group, and normal group, and the clinical data and sleep quality were collected. Among the patients of surgery, 56 fresh thyroid tissues were collected for real-time PCR, immunohistochemistry and western blotting analysis of CLOCK, BMAL1, CRYs and PERs. Poor sleep quality, sleep latency and daytime dysfunction were the independent risk factors of malignant nodule after adjusted by other impacts. The expression levels of CLOCK, BMAL1 and PER2 in thyroid malignant group were significantly higher than benign and normal groups, while CRY2 was decreased, p < 0.05. In addition, CLOCK and BMAL1 protein levels were positively correlated with PSQI of corresponding patients and CRY2 was negatively correlated. Circadian rhythm genes mainly altered in malignant nodules, and sleep disorders may be involved in the occurrence of elderly thyroid malignancy through the high expressions of CLOCK and BMAL1, and low expression of CRY2.
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- Xudan Lou
- Department of Endocrinology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.,The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China. .,The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.
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- The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.,Department of General Surgery, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.,The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.,The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.,The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China
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- The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatric Medicine, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China. .,Department of Gastroenterology, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China. .,Research Center On Aging and Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China. .,Department of Geriatrics, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, People's Republic of China.
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Meng H, Ruan J, Tian X, Li L, Chen W, Meng F. High retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor A gene expression in peripheral blood leukocytes may be related to acute myocardial infarction. J Int Med Res 2021; 49:3000605211019663. [PMID: 34101510 PMCID: PMC8191083 DOI: 10.1177/03000605211019663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate whether differential expression of the retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor A (RORA) gene is related to occurrence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS This was a retrospective study. White blood cells of 93 patients with acute myocardial infarction and 74 patients with stable coronary artery disease were collected. Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting were used to measure RORA mRNA and protein expression, respectively. RESULTS RORA mRNA expression levels in peripheral blood leukocytes in patients with AMI were 1.57 times higher than those in patients with stable coronary artery disease. Protein RORA levels in peripheral blood of patients with AMI were increased. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that high expression of RORA was an independent risk factor for AMI, and it increased the risk of AMI by 2.990 times. CONCLUSION RORA expression levels in patients with AMI is significantly higher than that in patients with stable coronary artery disease. High expression of RORA is related to AMI and it may be an independent risk factor for AMI.
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- Heyu Meng
- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Third Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin Provincial Cardiovascular Research Institute, Jilin, China
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Bellastella G, Maiorino MI, Scappaticcio L, De Bellis A, Mercadante S, Esposito K, Bellastella A. Chronothyroidology: Chronobiological Aspects in Thyroid Function and Diseases. Life (Basel) 2021; 11:life11050426. [PMID: 34068480 PMCID: PMC8151474 DOI: 10.3390/life11050426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Chronobiology is the scientific discipline which considers biological phenomena in relation to time, which assumes itself biological identity. Many physiological processes are cyclically regulated by intrinsic clocks and many pathological events show a circadian time-related occurrence. Even the pituitary–thyroid axis is under the control of a central clock, and the hormones of the pituitary–thyroid axis exhibit circadian, ultradian and circannual rhythmicity. This review, after describing briefly the essential principles of chronobiology, will be focused on the results of personal experiences and of other studies on this issue, paying particular attention to those regarding the thyroid implications, appearing in the literature as reviews, metanalyses, original and observational studies until 28 February 2021 and acquired from two databases (Scopus and PubMed). The first input to biological rhythms is given by a central clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which dictates the timing from its hypothalamic site to satellite clocks that contribute in a hierarchical way to regulate the physiological rhythmicity. Disruption of the rhythmic organization can favor the onset of important disorders, including thyroid diseases. Several studies on the interrelationship between thyroid function and circadian rhythmicity demonstrated that thyroid dysfunctions may affect negatively circadian organization, disrupting TSH rhythm. Conversely, alterations of clock machinery may cause important perturbations at the cellular level, which may favor thyroid dysfunctions and also cancer.
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- Giuseppe Bellastella
- Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (G.B.); (M.I.M.); (L.S.); (A.D.B.)
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- Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (G.B.); (M.I.M.); (L.S.); (A.D.B.)
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- Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (G.B.); (M.I.M.); (L.S.); (A.D.B.)
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- Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (G.B.); (M.I.M.); (L.S.); (A.D.B.)
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- Diabetes Unit, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (S.M.); (K.E.)
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- Diabetes Unit, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy; (S.M.); (K.E.)
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- Department of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
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Levothyroxine Interactions with Food and Dietary Supplements-A Systematic Review. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2021; 14:ph14030206. [PMID: 33801406 PMCID: PMC8002057 DOI: 10.3390/ph14030206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Levothyroxine (l-thyroxine, l-T4) is a drug of choice for treating congenital and primary hypothyroidism. Although clinically significant interactions between l-T4 and food can alter the safety and efficacy of the treatment, they still seem to be generally underestimated by patients, physicians and pharmacists. This review aimed to investigate the effects of meals, beverages, and dietary supplements consumption on l-T4 pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, to identify the most evident interactions, and to perform the recommendations for safe co-administering of l-T4 and food. A total of 121 studies were identified following a systematic literature search adhering to PRISMA guidelines. After full-text evaluation, 63 studies were included. The results proved that l-T4 ingestion in the morning and at bedtime are equally effective, and also that the co-administration of l-T4 with food depends on the drug formulation. We found limited evidence for l-T4 interactions with coffee, soy products, fiber, calcium or iron supplements, and enteral nutrition but interestingly they all resulted in decreased l-T4 absorption. The altered l-T4 efficacy when ingested with milk, juices, papaya, aluminium-containing preparations, and chromium supplements, as well as observed enhancement effect of vitamin C on l-T4 absorption, shall be further investigated in larger, well-designed studies. Novel formulations are likely to solve the problem of coffee, calcium and iron induced malabsorption of l-T4. Maintaining a proper time interval between l-T4 and food intake, especially for coffee and calcium, or iron supplements, provides another effective method of eliminating such interactions.
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Short- and long-term dynamics of the physiological and behavioral response to heat stress and thymol supplementation in Japanese quail. J Therm Biol 2021; 97:102876. [PMID: 33863440 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.102876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Organisms have evolved endogenous timing systems that enable them to predict temporal changes and to coordinate complex internal processes. However, temporal dynamics of biological responses are most often ignored in fields such as dietary supplementation of farm animals exposed to artificial environmental challenges. Herein, we hypothesized that the potential for thymol (2-isopropyl-5-methylphenol) to alleviate physiological and behavioral consequences of heat stress is time-dependent on both long-term (i.e. weeks) and short-term (i.e. within day) time scales. First, during 3-weeks adult female Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) were exposed daily to 9h of increased environmental temperature (34.2 ± 0.1 °C). Controls remained at standard temperatures (23.6 ± 0.1 °C). Simultaneously, half received thymol dietary supplementation and the other half a control basal diet. On day 4, both thymol and heat stress decreased body weight and feed intake respect to controls (basal, standard temperature). After three weeks, feed intake recovered for thymol groups. Therefore, we performed a second experiment focused on the critical first week of treatment, sampling variables three times a day. The beneficial effects of thymol supplementation were mainly observed during the morning, including prevention of high respiratory rates and reduction in the weight of droppings induced by heat stress, and increased walking under both temperatures. In summary, thymol's potential for alleviating heat stress consequences is time-dependent, and can be conceived as an emergent property resulting from the complex interplay between the dynamics of the biological response to thymol and heat stress. Findings highlight the importance of considering time-related factors when developing supplementation protocols to mitigate environmental challenges.
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Androulakis IP. Circadian rhythms and the HPA axis: A systems view. WIREs Mech Dis 2021; 13:e1518. [PMID: 33438348 DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The circadian timing system comprises a network of time-keeping clocks distributed across a living host whose responsibility is to allocate resources and distribute functions temporally to optimize fitness. The molecular structures generating these rhythms have evolved to accommodate the rotation of the earth in an attempt to primarily match the light/dark periods during the 24-hr day. To maintain synchrony of timing across and within tissues, information from the central clock, located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, is conveyed using systemic signals. Leading among those signals are endocrine hormones, and while the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis through the release of glucocorticoids is a major pacesetter. Interestingly, the fundamental units at the molecular and physiological scales that generate local and systemic signals share critical structural properties. These properties enable time-keeping systems to generate rhythmic signals and allow them to adopt specific properties as they interact with each other and the external environment. The purpose of this review is to provide a broad overview of these structures, discuss their functional characteristics, and describe some of their fundamental properties as these related to health and disease. This article is categorized under: Immune System Diseases > Computational Models Immune System Diseases > Biomedical Engineering.
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- Ioannis P Androulakis
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.,Department of Surgery, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Malaguarnera R, Ledda C, Filippello A, Frasca F, Francavilla VC, Ramaci T, Parisi MC, Rapisarda V, Piro S. Thyroid Cancer and Circadian Clock Disruption. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12113109. [PMID: 33114365 PMCID: PMC7690860 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12113109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Simple Summary In this manuscript we review the recent literature supporting a biological link between circadian clock disruption and thyroid cancer development and progression. After a brief description of the involvement of the circadian clock machinery in the cell cycle, stemness and cancer, we discuss the scientific evidence supporting the contribution of circadian clockwork dysfunction in thyroid tumorigenesis and the possible molecular mechanisms underlying this relationship. We also point out the potential clinical implications of this link highlighting its impact on thyroid cancer prevention, diagnosis and therapy. Abstract Thyroid cancer (TC) represents the most common malignancy of the endocrine system, with an increased incidence across continents attributable to both improvement of diagnostic procedures and environmental factors. Among the modifiable risk factors, insulin resistance might influence the development of TC. A relationship between circadian clock machinery disfunction and TC has recently been proposed. The circadian clock machinery comprises a set of rhythmically expressed genes responsible for circadian rhythms. Perturbation of this system contributes to the development of pathological states such as cancer. Several clock genes have been found deregulated upon thyroid nodule malignant transformation. The molecular mechanisms linking circadian clock disruption and TC are still unknown but could include insulin resistance. Circadian misalignment occurring during shift work, jet lag, high fat food intake, is associated with increased insulin resistance. This metabolic alteration, in turn, is associated with a well-known risk factor for TC i.e., hyperthyrotropinemia, which could also be induced by sleep disturbances. In this review, we describe the mechanisms controlling the circadian clock function and its involvement in the cell cycle, stemness and cancer. Moreover, we discuss the evidence supporting the link between circadian clockwork disruption and TC development/progression, highlighting its potential implications for TC prevention, diagnosis and therapy.
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- Roberta Malaguarnera
- School of Human and Social Sciences, “Kore” University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy; (R.M.); (V.C.F.); (T.R.); (M.C.P.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Occupational Medicine, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy;
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Internal Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy; (A.F.); (S.P.)
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- Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy;
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- School of Human and Social Sciences, “Kore” University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy; (R.M.); (V.C.F.); (T.R.); (M.C.P.)
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- School of Human and Social Sciences, “Kore” University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy; (R.M.); (V.C.F.); (T.R.); (M.C.P.)
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- School of Human and Social Sciences, “Kore” University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy; (R.M.); (V.C.F.); (T.R.); (M.C.P.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Occupational Medicine, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy;
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Internal Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy; (A.F.); (S.P.)
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Li X, Zhao H. Automated feature extraction from population wearable device data identified novel loci associated with sleep and circadian rhythms. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1009089. [PMID: 33075057 PMCID: PMC7595622 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Wearable devices have been increasingly used in research to provide continuous physical activity monitoring, but how to effectively extract features remains challenging for researchers. To analyze the generated actigraphy data in large-scale population studies, we developed computationally efficient methods to derive sleep and activity features through a Hidden Markov Model-based sleep/wake identification algorithm, and circadian rhythm features through a Penalized Multi-band Learning approach adapted from machine learning. Unsupervised feature extraction is useful when labeled data are unavailable, especially in large-scale population studies. We applied these two methods to the UK Biobank wearable device data and used the derived sleep and circadian features as phenotypes in genome-wide association studies. We identified 53 genetic loci with p<5×10-8 including genes known to be associated with sleep disorders and circadian rhythms as well as novel loci associated with Body Mass Index, mental diseases and neurological disorders, which suggest shared genetic factors of sleep and circadian rhythms with physical and mental health. Further cross-tissue enrichment analysis highlights the important role of the central nervous system and the shared genetic architecture with metabolism-related traits and the metabolic system. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of our unsupervised methods for wearable device data when additional training data cannot be easily acquired, and our study further expands the application of wearable devices in population studies and genetic studies to provide novel biological insights.
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- Xinyue Li
- School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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Andersson CK, Elvborn M, Spetz JKE, Langen B, Forssell-Aronsson EB. Biodistribution of 131I in mice is influenced by circadian variations. Sci Rep 2020; 10:15541. [PMID: 32968085 PMCID: PMC7511401 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72180-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Effects of radiation and biodistribution of radionuclides are often studied in animal models. Circadian rhythm affects many biological functions and may influence the biokinetics of radionuclides and observed responses. The aim of this study was to investigate if the time during the day of 131I injection affects the biodistribution and absorbed dose to tissues in mice. Biodistribution studies were conducted on male C57BL/6 N mice for three diurnal time-series: the animals were i.v. injected with 160 kBq 131I at 8 am, 12 pm or 4 pm. The activity concentration in organs and tissues was measured at 1 h to 7 days after administration and absorbed dose at day 7 was determined. Comparison between the three time-series showed statistically significant differences in activity concentration in all investigated tissues and organs. Administration performed at 12 pm resulted in general in higher absorbed dose to the organs than injection performed at 8 am and 4 pm. Time of day of administration affects the biodistribution of 131I in mice and consequently the absorbed dose to individual organs. These findings advocate that subsequent biodistribution studies and dosimetry calculations should consider time-point of administration as a variable that could influence the results.
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- Charlotte K Andersson
- Department of Radiation Physics, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Department of Radiation Physics, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Physics, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Physics, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Physics, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Finger AM, Dibner C, Kramer A. Coupled network of the circadian clocks: a driving force of rhythmic physiology. FEBS Lett 2020; 594:2734-2769. [PMID: 32750151 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The circadian system is composed of coupled endogenous oscillators that allow living beings, including humans, to anticipate and adapt to daily changes in their environment. In mammals, circadian clocks form a hierarchically organized network with a 'master clock' located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus, which ensures entrainment of subsidiary oscillators to environmental cycles. Robust rhythmicity of body clocks is indispensable for temporally coordinating organ functions, and the disruption or misalignment of circadian rhythms caused for instance by modern lifestyle is strongly associated with various widespread diseases. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge about the molecular architecture and system-level organization of mammalian circadian oscillators. Furthermore, we discuss the regulatory roles of peripheral clocks for cell and organ physiology and their implication in the temporal coordination of metabolism in human health and disease. Finally, we summarize methods for assessing circadian rhythmicity in humans.
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- Anna-Marie Finger
- Laboratory of Chronobiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Patient Education, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Chronobiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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Zhang Q, Jiang C, Li H, Zhang C, Wu H, Huang F. Effect of the Interaction Between Cadmium Exposure and CLOCK Gene Polymorphisms on Thyroid Cancer: a Case-Control Study in China. Biol Trace Elem Res 2020; 196:86-95. [PMID: 31637582 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-019-01904-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The exposure to endocrine disruptors and the disruption of the circadian rhythms can both affect thyroid hormones, with results that are most likely carcinogenic in humans. The effects of cadmium (Cd) level and circadian-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on thyroid cancer (TC) risk have rarely been reported. In this study, the associations of urine Cd, CLOCK gene polymorphisms, and TC risk were evaluated, in addition to the effect of the gene-environment interaction on TC risk. In this case-control study, 218 TC cases and 218 controls were enrolled. Cd in urinary samples was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry. Three SNPs (rs3805151, rs3805154, and rs78929565) were genotyped with an improved multiplex ligation detection reaction technique. The individuals with a high Cd level were 1.72-fold more likely to have TC (OR = 1.72, 95%CI 1.04-2.85), and a high Cd level was associated with higher tumor T stage and N stage (OR = 2.42, 95%CI 1.28-4.58; OR = 3.26, 95%CI 1.67-6.33, respectively). Individuals with TT genotype of rs78929565 had a 107 % increase in TC risk (OR = 2.07, 95%CI 1.00-4.29). Cases with CT genotype tended to have a higher AJCC stage (OR = 2.79, 95% CI 1.01-7.78). A significant interaction was detected between the rs78929565 variant and Cd exposure (p interaction = 0.04). The TT genotype carriers of rs78929565 with a high Cd level were more susceptible to thyroid cancer than the major homozygotes carriers who were exposed to a low cadmium level (OR = 2.66, 95%CI 1.07-6.59). These findings suggested that Cd exposure and the CLOCK variant genotypes were associated with TC risk and tumor severity. Individuals with minor allele of rs78929565 and higher Cd exposure had increased susceptibility to TC. Further studies are required to confirm these findings.
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- Qian Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China.
- Central Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China.
- Laboratory for Environmental Toxicology, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Shushan District, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China.
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In all vertebrates, the thyroid axis is an endocrine feedback system that affects growth, differentiation, and reproduction, by sensing and translating central and peripheral signals to maintain homeostasis and a proper thyroidal set-point. Fish, the most diverse group of vertebrates, rely on this system for somatic growth, metamorphosis, reproductive events, and the ability to tolerate changing environments. The vast majority of the research on the thyroid axis pertains to mammals, in particular rodents, and although some progress has been made to understand the role of this endocrine axis in non-mammalian vertebrates, including amphibians and teleost fish, major gaps in our knowledge remain regarding other groups, such as elasmobranchs and cyclostomes. In this review, we discuss the roles of the thyroid axis in fish and its contributions to growth and development, metamorphosis, reproduction, osmoregulation, as well as feeding and nutrient metabolism. We also discuss how thyroid hormones have been/can be used in aquaculture, and potential threats to the thyroid system in this regard.
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Dibner C. The importance of being rhythmic: Living in harmony with your body clocks. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2020; 228:e13281. [PMID: 30980501 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Circadian rhythms have developed in all light-sensitive organisms, including humans, as a fundamental anticipatory mechanism that enables proactive adaptation to environmental changes. The circadian system is organized in a highly hierarchical manner, with clocks operative in most cells of the body ensuring the temporal coordination of physiological processes. Circadian misalignment, stemming from modern life style, draws increasing attention due to its tight association with the development of metabolic, cardiovascular, inflammatory and mental diseases as well as cancer. This review highlights recent findings emphasizing the role of the circadian system in the temporal orchestration of physiology, with a particular focus on implications of circadian misalignment in human pathologies.
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- Charna Dibner
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Medicine University Hospital of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
- Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3) Geneva Switzerland
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Sun Q, Avallone L, Stolze B, Araque KA, Özarda Y, Jonklaas J, Parikh T, Welsh K, Masika L, Soldin SJ. Demonstration of reciprocal diurnal variation in human serum T3 and rT3 concentration demonstrated by mass spectrometric analysis and establishment of thyroid hormone reference intervals. Ther Adv Endocrinol Metab 2020; 11:2042018820922688. [PMID: 32523672 PMCID: PMC7257839 DOI: 10.1177/2042018820922688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There has been a wide range of reference intervals proposed in previous literature for thyroid hormones due to large between-assay variability of immunoassays, as well as lack of correction for collection time. We provided the diurnal reference intervals for five thyroid hormones, namely total thyroxine (TT4), total triiodothyronine (TT3), free thyroxine (FT4), free triiodothyronine (FT3), and reverse T3 (rT3), measured in serum samples of healthy participants using a liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. METHODS Couplet serum samples (a.m. and p.m.) were collected from 110 healthy females and 49 healthy males. Healthy volunteers were recruited from four participating centers between 2016 and 2018. Measurements of thyroid hormones were obtained by LC-MS/MS analysis. RESULTS Our study revealed significant uptrend in AM to PM FT4 (p < 0.0001) samples, downtrend in AM to PM TT3 (p = 0.0004) and FT3 samples (p < 0.0001), and AM to PM uptrend in rT3 samples (p < 0.0001). No difference was observed for TT4 between AM and PM. No significant sex differences were seen for any of the five thyroid hormones. CONCLUSION When diagnosing thyroid disorders, it is important to have accurate measurement of thyroid hormones, and to acknowledge the diurnal fluctuation found, especially for FT3. Our study highlights the importance of standardization of collection times and implementation of LC-MS/MS in thyroid hormone measurement.
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- Qian Sun
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Pathology, William Beaumont Hospital, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, MI, USA
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- Clinical laboratory, Hospital São Camilo, Dasa, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Endocrinology Pituitary Disorders Center, Pacific Neuroscience Institute, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology/National Health Laboratory Service Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa
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Humans, like all mammals, partition their daily behaviour into activity (wakefulness) and rest (sleep) phases that differ largely in their metabolic requirements. The circadian clock evolved as an autonomous timekeeping system that aligns behavioural patterns with the solar day and supports the body functions by anticipating and coordinating the required metabolic programmes. The key component of this synchronization is a master clock in the brain, which responds to light-darkness cues from the environment. However, to achieve circadian control of the entire organism, each cell of the body is equipped with its own circadian oscillator that is controlled by the master clock and confers rhythmicity to individual cells and organs through the control of rate-limiting steps of metabolic programmes. Importantly, metabolic regulation is not a mere output function of the circadian system, but nutrient, energy and redox levels signal back to cellular clocks in order to reinforce circadian rhythmicity and to adapt physiology to temporal tissue-specific needs. Thus, multiple systemic and molecular mechanisms exist that connect the circadian clock with metabolism at all levels, from cellular organelles to the whole organism, and deregulation of this circadian-metabolic crosstalk can lead to various pathologies.
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Effects of acute psychosocial stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis in healthy women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2019; 110:104438. [PMID: 31563038 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The individual set point of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis is largely genetically determined. Apart from this genetic predisposition, the HPT axis may also be malleable to environmental demands such as psychosocial stress. Indeed, previous research has indicated that critical life events often precede the onset of autoimmune thyroid diseases, and subtle abnormalities in HPT functioning are present in some patients with stress-related disorders such as depression. However, no studies have investigated whether exposure to psychosocial stress leads to an immediate activation of the HPT axis. METHODS A total of N = 30 healthy women attended two laboratory appointments in a randomized order. An intravenous catheter was inserted at the beginning of each appointment. In the stress session, this was followed by the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Plasma samples to determine thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), triiodothyronine (T3), and thyroxine (T4) were taken at baseline and 20, 50, and 110 min after the TSST started. In the control session, participants rested and were instructed to read magazines, while the sampling schedule was maintained. RESULTS There was a significant rise in TSH concentrations in response to the TSST, with a peak observed 20 min after stressor onset, and a steady decline thereafter. No such response was observed in the control session. The TSST did not increase T3 or T4. CONCLUSION The finding that acute psychosocial stress is able to elicit a significant increase in TSH is relevant to our understanding of a number of stress-related illnesses presenting with abnormalities of the HPT axis.
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Sadowski SM, Petrenko V, Meyer P, Pusztaszeri M, Brulhart-Meynet MC, Heddad Masson M, Triponez F, Philippe J, Dibner C. Validation of molecular biomarkers for preoperative diagnostics of human papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates. Gland Surg 2019; 8:S62-S76. [PMID: 31475093 DOI: 10.21037/gs.2018.11.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Background Despite substantial efforts, reliable preoperative diagnostic for human thyroid malignancies in case of cytologically indeterminate nodules is still missing, resulting in high number of unnecessary thyroidectomies. In an attempt to increase precision of existing preoperative diagnostics, we aimed at validating the panel of molecular biomarkers predictive for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in preoperative fine needle aspirate (FNA) samples. Methods In this prospective study conducted in preoperative thyroid FNA from 44 thyroid nodules, expression levels of 11 molecular biomarkers previously validated on the postoperative samples of PTCs were measured by Cell-to-CT and QuantiGene Plex methods and correlated with final diagnosis. Results The QuantiGene Plex resulted in reliable gene expression measurements for FNA and core-needle biopsy (CNB) samples, however this method was less sensitive than pre-amplification based Cell-to-CT. Measurements conducted on the same samples by the two methods significantly correlated for most of the genes. Expression levels of TIMP1, c-MET and ARNTL were upregulated in PTC nodules as compared to benign counterparts, supporting previous post-operative studies. Strong correlation was observed between these biomarker alterations in the same samples. Within the sub-group of 15 indeterminate nodules (Bethesda II-V), TIMP1 had 100% specificity and 83% sensitivity for PTC cases. Conclusions Assessment of TIMP1, c-MET and core-clock gene ARNTL expression levels by QuantiGene Plex assay in FNA samples holds promise as an ancillary method to the cytological preoperative diagnostics.
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- Samira M Sadowski
- Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,iGE3 Center, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Pathology, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,iGE3 Center, Geneva, Switzerland
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Angelousi A, Kassi E, Ansari-Nasiri N, Randeva H, Kaltsas G, Chrousos G. Clock genes and cancer development in particular in endocrine tissues. Endocr Relat Cancer 2019; 26:R305-R317. [PMID: 30959483 DOI: 10.1530/erc-19-0094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Circadian rhythms at a central and peripheral level are operated by transcriptional/translational feedback loops involving a set of genes called 'clock genes' that have been implicated in the development of several diseases, including malignancies. Dysregulation of the Clock system can influence cancer susceptibility by regulating DNA damage and repair mechanisms, as well as apoptosis. A number of oncogenic pathways can be dysregulated via clock genes' epigenetic alterations, including hypermethylation of clock genes' promoters or variants of clock genes. Clock gene disruption has been studied in breast, lung and prostate cancer, and haematological malignancies. However, it is still not entirely clear whether clock gene disruption is the cause or the consequence of tumourigenesis and data in endocrine neoplasms are scarce. Recent findings suggest that clock genes are implicated in benign and malignant adrenocortical neoplasias. They have been also associated with follicular and papillary thyroid carcinomas and parathyroid adenomas, as well as pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas. Dysregulation of clock genes is also encountered in ovarian and testicular tumours and may also be related with their susceptibility to chemotherapeutic agents. The most common clock genes that are implicated in endocrine neoplasms are PER1, CRY1; in most cases their expression is downregulated in tumoural compared to normal tissues. Although there is still a lot to be done for the better understanding of the role of clock genes in endocrine tumourigenenesis, existing evidence could guide research and help identify novel therapeutic targets aiming mainly at the peripheral components of the clock gene system.
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- Anna Angelousi
- Endocrine Unit, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Endocrine Unit, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Warwickshire Institute for the Study of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (WISDEM), University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
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- Endocrine Unit, 1st Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, Laiko University Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- First Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Gotlieb N, Moeller J, Kriegsfeld LJ. Circadian Control of Neuroendocrine Function: Implications for Health and Disease. CURRENT OPINION IN PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 5:133-140. [PMID: 30957055 DOI: 10.1016/j.cophys.2018.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The circadian timing system orchestrates daily rhythms in physiology and behavior via the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the master brain clock. Because endocrine secretions have far-reaching influence on the brain and periphery, circadian regulation of hormones is essential for normal functioning and disruptions to circadian timing (e.g., irregular sleep patterns, limited exposure to sunlight, jet lag, nighttime light exposure) have detrimental health consequences. Herein, we provide an overview of circadian timing in three major endocrine axes, the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG), hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axes, and then consider the negative health consequences of circadian disruptions in each of these systems. For example, disruptions to HPG axis circadian timing lead to a host of negative reproductive outcomes such as irregular menstrual cycles, low sperm density and increased rates of miscarriages and infertility. Dysregulation of HPA axis timing is associated with obesity and metabolic disease, whereas disruptions to the HPT axis are associated with dysregulated metabolic gene rhythms in the heart. Together, this overview underscores the significance of circadian endocrine rhythms in normal health and disease prevention.
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- Neta Gotlieb
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720
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- Graduate Group in Endocrinology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720.,Graduate Group in Endocrinology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.,The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720
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Petrenko V, Philippe J, Dibner C. Time zones of pancreatic islet metabolism. Diabetes Obes Metab 2018; 20 Suppl 2:116-126. [PMID: 30230177 DOI: 10.1111/dom.13383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Most living beings possess an intrinsic system of circadian oscillators, allowing anticipation of the Earth's rotation around its own axis. The mammalian circadian timing system orchestrates nearly all aspects of physiology and behaviour. Together with systemic signals originating from the central clock that resides in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus, peripheral oscillators orchestrate tissue-specific fluctuations in gene transcription and translation, and posttranslational modifications, driving overt rhythms in physiology and behaviour. There is accumulating evidence of a reciprocal connection between the circadian oscillator and most aspects of physiology and metabolism, in particular as the circadian system plays a critical role in orchestrating body glucose homeostasis. Recent reports imply that circadian clocks operative in the endocrine pancreas regulate insulin secretion, and that islet clock perturbation in rodents leads to the development of overt type 2 diabetes. While whole islet clocks have been extensively studied during the last years, the heterogeneity of islet cell oscillators and the interplay between α- and β-cellular clocks for orchestrating glucagon and insulin secretion have only recently gained attention. Here, we review recent findings on the molecular makeup of the circadian clocks operative in pancreatic islet cells in rodents and in humans, and focus on the physiologically relevant synchronizers that are resetting these time-keepers. Moreover, the implication of islet clock functional outputs in the temporal coordination of metabolism in health and disease will be highlighted.
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- Volodymyr Petrenko
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), Geneva, Switzerland
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Sadowski SM, Pusztaszeri M, Brulhart-Meynet MC, Petrenko V, De Vito C, Sobel J, Delucinge-Vivier C, Kebebew E, Regazzi R, Philippe J, Triponez F, Dibner C. Identification of Differential Transcriptional Patterns in Primary and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2018; 103:2189-2198. [PMID: 29659895 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2017-02506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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CONTEXT Hyperparathyroidism is associated with hypercalcemia and the excess of parathyroid hormone secretion; however, the alterations in molecular pattern of functional genes during parathyroid tumorigenesis have not been unraveled. We aimed at establishing transcriptional patterns of normal and pathological parathyroid glands (PGs) in sporadic primary (HPT1) and secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT2). OBJECTIVE To evaluate dynamic alterations in molecular patterns as a function of the type of PG pathology, a comparative transcript analysis was conducted in subgroups of healthy samples, sporadic HPT1 adenoma and hyperplasia, and HPT2. DESIGN Normal, adenomatous, HPT1, and HPT2 hyperplastic PG formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples were subjected to NanoString analysis. In silico microRNA (miRNA) analyses and messenger RNA-miRNA network in PG pathologies were conducted. Individual messenger RNA and miRNA levels were assessed in snap-frozen PG samples. RESULTS The expression levels of c-MET, MYC, TIMP1, and clock genes NFIL3 and PER1 were significantly altered in HPT1 adenoma compared with normal PG tissue when assessed by NanoString and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. RET was affected in HPT1 hyperplasia, whereas CaSR and VDR transcripts were downregulated in HPT2 hyperplastic PG tissue. CDH1, c-MET, MYC, and CaSR were altered in adenoma compared with hyperplasia. Correlation analyses suggest that c-MET, MYC, and NFIL3 exhibit collective expression level changes associated with HPT1 adenoma development. miRNAs, predicted in silico to target these genes, did not exhibit a clear tendency upon experimental validation. CONCLUSIONS The presented gene expression analysis provides a differential molecular characterization of PG adenoma and hyperplasia pathologies, advancing our understanding of their etiology.
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- Samira Mercedes Sadowski
- Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Clinical Pathology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- iGE3 Genomics Platform, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Clinical Pathology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- iGE3 Genomics Platform, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Angelousi A, Kassi E, Nasiri-Ansari N, Weickert MO, Randeva H, Kaltsas G. Clock genes alterations and endocrine disorders. Eur J Clin Invest 2018; 48:e12927. [PMID: 29577261 DOI: 10.1111/eci.12927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Various endocrine signals oscillate over the 24-hour period and so does the responsiveness of target tissues. These daily oscillations do not occur solely in response to external stimuli but are also under the control of an intrinsic circadian clock. DESIGN We searched the PubMed database to identify studies describing the associations of clock genes with endocrine diseases. RESULTS Various human single nucleotide polymorphisms of brain and muscle ARNT-like 1 (BMAL1) and Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput (CLOCK) genes exhibited significant associations with type 2 diabetes mellitus. ARNTL2 gene expression and upregulation of BMAL1 and PER1 were associated with the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Thyroid hormones modulated PER2 expression in a tissue-specific way, whereas BMAL1 regulated the expression of type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase in specific tissues. Adrenal gland and adrenal adenoma expressed PER1, PER2, CRY2, CLOCK and BMAL1 genes. Adrenal sensitivity to adrenocorticotrophin was also affected by circadian oscillations. A significant correlation between the expression of propio-melanocorticotrophin and PER 2, as well as between prolactin and CLOCK, was found in corticotroph and lactosomatotroph cells, respectively, in the pituitary. Clock genes and especially BMAL1 showed an important role in fertility, whereas oestradiol and androgens exhibited tissue-specific effects on clock gene expression. Metabolic disorders were also associated with circadian dysregulation according to studies in shift workers. CONCLUSIONS Clock genes are associated with various endocrine disorders through complex mechanisms. However, data on humans are scarce. Moreover, clock genes exhibit a tissue-specific expression representing an additional level of regulation. Their specific role in endocrine disorders and their potential implications remain to be further clarified.
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- Anna Angelousi
- Department of Pathophysiology, Endocrine Unit, Laiko Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Biochemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Biochemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Warwickshire Institute for the Study of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (WISDEM), University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
- Division of Translational and Experimental Medicine, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- Centre for Applied Biological & Exercise Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
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- Warwickshire Institute for the Study of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (WISDEM), University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
- Division of Translational and Experimental Medicine, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- Centre for Applied Biological & Exercise Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
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- 1st Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Medical School, Laikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Laje R, Agostino PV, Golombek DA. The Times of Our Lives: Interaction Among Different Biological Periodicities. Front Integr Neurosci 2018; 12:10. [PMID: 29593507 PMCID: PMC5859086 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2018.00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Environmental cycles on Earth display different periodicities, including daily, tidal or annual time scales. Virtually all living organisms have developed temporal mechanisms to adapt to such changes in environmental conditions. These biological timing structures—ranging from microsecond to seasonal timing—may have intrinsic properties and even different clock machinery. However, interaction among these temporal systems may present evolutionary advantages, for example, when species are exposed to changing climatic conditions or different geographic locations. Here, we present and discuss a model that accounts for the circadian regulation of both ultradian (less than 24-h) and infradian (more than 24-h) cycles and for the interaction among the three time scales. We show two clear examples of such interaction: (i) between the circadian clock and the seasonal regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid (HPT) axis; and (ii) between the circadian clock and the hypothalamic-nigrostriatal (HNS) ultradian modulation. This remarkable interplay among the otherwise considered isolated rhythms has been demonstrated to exist in diverse organisms, suggesting an adaptive advantage of multiple scales of biological timing.
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- Rodrigo Laje
- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Makhlouf AM, Chitikova Z, Pusztaszeri M, Berczy M, Delucinge-Vivier C, Triponez F, Meyer P, Philippe J, Dibner C. Identification of CHEK1, SLC26A4, c-KIT, TPO and TG as new biomarkers for human follicular thyroid carcinoma. Oncotarget 2018; 7:45776-45788. [PMID: 27329729 PMCID: PMC5216760 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The search for preoperative biomarkers for thyroid malignancies, in particular for follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) diagnostics, is of utmost clinical importance. We thus aimed at screening for potential biomarker candidates for FTC. To evaluate dynamic alterations in molecular patterns as a function of thyroid malignancy progression, a comparative analysis was conducted in clinically distinct subgroups of FTC and poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (PDTC) nodules. NanoString analysis of FFPE samples was performed in 22 follicular adenomas, 56 FTC and 25 PDTC nodules, including oncocytic and non-oncocytic subgroups. The expression levels of CHEK1, c-KIT, SLC26A4, TG and TPO were significantly altered in all types of thyroid carcinomas. Based on collective changes of these biomarkers which correlating among each other, a predictive score has been established, allowing for discrimination between benign and FTC samples with high sensitivity and specificity. Additional transcripts related to thyroid function, cell cycle, circadian clock, and apoptosis regulation were altered in the more aggressive oncocytic subgroups only, with expression levels correlating with disease progression. Distinct molecular patterns were observed for oncocytic and non-oncocytic FTCs and PDTCs. A predictive score correlation coefficient based on collective alterations of identified here biomarkers might help to improve the preoperative diagnosis of FTC nodules.
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- Anne-Marie Makhlouf
- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Petrenko V, Saini C, Giovannoni L, Gobet C, Sage D, Unser M, Heddad Masson M, Gu G, Bosco D, Gachon F, Philippe J, Dibner C. Pancreatic α- and β-cellular clocks have distinct molecular properties and impact on islet hormone secretion and gene expression. Genes Dev 2017; 31:383-398. [PMID: 28275001 PMCID: PMC5358758 DOI: 10.1101/gad.290379.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Here, Petrenko et al. present the first integrative analysis of the molecular properties of circadian clocks in α and β pancreatic cells and provide new insights into the complex regulation of islet cell physiology at transcriptional and functional levels. A critical role of circadian oscillators in orchestrating insulin secretion and islet gene transcription has been demonstrated recently. However, these studies focused on whole islets and did not explore the interplay between α-cell and β-cell clocks. We performed a parallel analysis of the molecular properties of α-cell and β-cell oscillators using a mouse model expressing three reporter genes: one labeling α cells, one specific for β cells, and a third monitoring circadian gene expression. Thus, phase entrainment properties, gene expression, and functional outputs of the α-cell and β-cell clockworks could be assessed in vivo and in vitro at the population and single-cell level. These experiments showed that α-cellular and β-cellular clocks are oscillating with distinct phases in vivo and in vitro. Diurnal transcriptome analysis in separated α and β cells revealed that a high number of genes with key roles in islet physiology, including regulators of glucose sensing and hormone secretion, are differentially expressed in these cell types. Moreover, temporal insulin and glucagon secretion exhibited distinct oscillatory profiles both in vivo and in vitro. Altogether, our data indicate that differential entrainment characteristics of circadian α-cell and β-cell clocks are an important feature in the temporal coordination of endocrine function and gene expression.
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- Volodymyr Petrenko
- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Diabetes and Circadian Rhythms, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.,School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Cell Isolation and Transplantation Centre, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Diabetes and Circadian Rhythms, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.,School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Nutrition, University Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, Diabetes Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Dibner C, Sadowski SM, Triponez F, Philippe J. The search for preoperative biomarkers for thyroid carcinoma: application of the thyroid circadian clock properties. Biomark Med 2017; 11:285-293. [DOI: 10.2217/bmm-2016-0316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence suggests that alterations in the molecular clocks underlying the circadian time-keeping system might be connected to changes in cell cycle, resulting in oncogenic transformation. The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis is driven by a circadian clock at several levels, with an endocrine feedback loop regulating thyroid-stimulating hormone. Changes in the expression levels of circadian and cell cycle markers may correlate with clinic-pathological characteristics in differentiated follicular thyroid carcinomas. Here we summarize recent advances in exploring complex regulation of the thyroid gland transcriptome and function by the circadian oscillator. We particularly focus on clinical implications of the parallel assessment of the circadian clock, cell-cycle and cell functionality markers in human thyroid tissue, which might help improving preoperative diagnostics of thyroid malignancies.
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- Charna Dibner
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension & Nutrition, Department of Medical Specialties, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Cell Physiology & Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Thoracic & Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology & Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Petrenko V, Gosmain Y, Dibner C. High-Resolution Recording of the Circadian Oscillator in Primary Mouse α- and β-Cell Culture. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2017; 8:68. [PMID: 28439257 PMCID: PMC5383706 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Circadian clocks have been developed in evolution as an anticipatory mechanism allowing for adaptation to the constantly changing light environment due to rotation of the Earth. This mechanism is functional in all light-sensitive organisms. There is a considerable body of evidence on the tight connection between the circadian clock and most aspects of physiology and metabolism. Clocks, operative in the pancreatic islets, have caught particular attention in the last years due to recent reports on their critical roles in regulation of insulin secretion and etiology of type 2 diabetes. While β-cell clocks have been extensively studied during the last years, α-cell clocks and their role in islet function and orchestration of glucose metabolism stayed unexplored, largely due to the difficulty to isolate α-cells, which represents a considerable technical challenge. Here, we provide a detailed description of an experimental approach for the isolation of separate mouse α- and β-cell population, culture of isolated primary α- and β-cells, and their subsequent long-term high-resolution circadian bioluminescence recording. For this purpose, a triple reporter ProGlucagon-Venus/RIP-Cherry/Per2:Luciferase mouse line was established, carrying specific fluorescent reporters for α- and β-cells, and luciferase reporter for monitoring the molecular clockwork. Flow cytometry fluorescence-activated cell sorting allowed separating pure α- and β-cell populations from isolated islets. Experimental conditions, developed by us for the culture of functional primary mouse α- and β-cells for at least 10 days, will be highlighted. Importantly, temporal analysis of freshly isolated α- and β-cells around-the-clock revealed preserved rhythmicity of core clock genes expression. Finally, we describe the setting to assess circadian rhythm in cultured α- and β-cells synchronized in vitro. The here-described methodology allows to analyze the functional properties of primary α- and β-cells under physiological or pathophysiological conditions and to assess the islet cellular clock properties.
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- Volodymyr Petrenko
- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition Division, Department of Specialties of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Center of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Diabetes Center of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Molecular Diabetes Laboratory, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition Division, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Specialties of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition Division, Department of Specialties of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), Geneva, Switzerland
- Diabetes Center of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- *Correspondence: Charna Dibner,
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Petrenko V, Saini C, Perrin L, Dibner C. Parallel Measurement of Circadian Clock Gene Expression and Hormone Secretion in Human Primary Cell Cultures. J Vis Exp 2016. [PMID: 27911383 DOI: 10.3791/54673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Circadian clocks are functional in all light-sensitive organisms, allowing for an adaptation to the external world by anticipating daily environmental changes. Considerable progress in our understanding of the tight connection between the circadian clock and most aspects of physiology has been made in the field over the last decade. However, unraveling the molecular basis that underlies the function of the circadian oscillator in humans stays of highest technical challenge. Here, we provide a detailed description of an experimental approach for long-term (2-5 days) bioluminescence recording and outflow medium collection in cultured human primary cells. For this purpose, we have transduced primary cells with a lentiviral luciferase reporter that is under control of a core clock gene promoter, which allows for the parallel assessment of hormone secretion and circadian bioluminescence. Furthermore, we describe the conditions for disrupting the circadian clock in primary human cells by transfecting siRNA targeting CLOCK. Our results on the circadian regulation of insulin secretion by human pancreatic islets, and myokine secretion by human skeletal muscle cells, are presented here to illustrate the application of this methodology. These settings can be used to study the molecular makeup of human peripheral clocks and to analyze their functional impact on primary cells under physiological or pathophysiological conditions.
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- Volodymyr Petrenko
- Department of Medical Specialties, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Diabetes Center, University of Geneva Medical School, Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3)
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- Population Epidemiology Unit (UEP), Community Medicine, Geneva University Hospital
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Diabetes Center, University of Geneva Medical School, Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3)
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Diabetes Center, University of Geneva Medical School, Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3);
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Le TN, Celi FS, Wickham EP. Thyrotropin Levels Are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Euthyroid Adolescents. Thyroid 2016; 26:1441-1449. [PMID: 27599541 PMCID: PMC5067795 DOI: 10.1089/thy.2016.0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Increased thyrotropin (TSH) levels and free triiodothyronine to free thyroxine (fT3:fT4) ratios, even within the euthyroid range, have been associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in adults but are less characterized in youth. This study sought to determine relations between TSH, thyroid hormones, and cardiometabolic risk factors in euthyroid adolescents. METHODS Data were extracted from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2010, for univariate and multivariate analyses of TSH, thyroid hormones, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, lipids, and glucose metabolism. Subjects aged 12-18 years, with normal TSH and antithyroid peroxidase antibody levels, and without a history of thyroid disease, diabetes, or treatment of hypertension/dyslipidemia (n = 1167) were included. TSH and thyroid hormones were assessed for impact on BMI Z-score, systolic blood pressure (SBP) diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, triglycerides, and glucose metabolism. RESULTS Univariate analyses revealed positive linear relations between TSH and SBP, TC, fasting and two-hour glucose, and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). The fT3:fT4 ratio negatively correlated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol but positively with BMI Z-score, SBP, triglycerides, fasting and two-hour glucose, fasting insulin, and HOMA-IR. In multivariate analyses controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and BMI Z-score, relations between TSH and both TC and fasting glucose remained significant, and the fT3:fT4 ratio was positively associated with fasting glucose and HOMA-IR. CONCLUSIONS In an unselected population of euthyroid U.S. adolescents, TSH and thyroid hormones correlate with multiple cardiometabolic risk factors, with age- and sex-independent effects on cholesterol and glucose metabolism.
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- Trang N. Le
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
- Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
- Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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Okano S. Unique Aspects of Cryptochrome in Chronobiology and Metabolism, Pancreatic β-Cell Dysfunction, and Regeneration: Research into Cysteine414-Alanine Mutant CRY1. J Diabetes Res 2016; 2016:3459246. [PMID: 28105441 PMCID: PMC5220486 DOI: 10.1155/2016/3459246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cryptochrome proteins (CRYs), which can bind noncovalently to cofactor (chromophore) flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), occur widely among organisms. CRYs play indispensable roles in the generation of circadian rhythm in mammals. Transgenic mice (Tg mice), ubiquitously expressing mouse CRY1 having a mutation in which cysteine414 (the zinc-binding site of CRY1) being replaced with alanine, display unique phenotypes in their circadian rhythms. Moreover, male Tg mice exhibit symptoms of diabetes characterized by beta-cell dysfunction, resembling human maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY). The lowered proliferation of β-cells is a primary cause of age-dependent β-cell loss. Furthermore, unusually enlarged duct-like structures developed prominently in the Tg mice pancreases. The duct-like structures contained insulin-positive cells, suggesting neogenesis of β-cells in the Tg mice. This review, based mainly on the author's investigation of the unique features of Tg mice, presents reported results and recent findings related to molecular processes associated with mammalian cryptochromes, especially their involvement in the regulation of metabolism. New information is described with emphasis on the aspects of islet architecture, pancreatic β-cell dysfunction, and regeneration.
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- Satoshi Okano
- Research Center for Molecular Genetics, Institute for Promotion of Medical Science Research, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan
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Smalls-Mantey A, Steinglass J, Primack M, Clark-Hamilton J, Bongiovi M. Hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis masked by anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord 2015; 48:932-5. [PMID: 25945456 DOI: 10.1002/eat.22420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) is typically associated with altered thyroid function tests, notably a low total and free T3 , and lower, but within normal range, free T4 and TSH. A 16-year-old girl with a four-year history of AN presented with elevated TSH that fluctuated with changes in weight. TSH was within normal limits (1.7-3.64 mIU/L) following periods of weight loss and elevated with weight gain (5.9-21.66 mIU/L). Antithyroperoxidase antibodies were markedly elevated, suggesting chronic Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Of note, the elevated TSH that would be expected in Hashimoto's thyroiditis was blunted by weight loss associated with AN. Physicians should be aware that AN may contribute to masking thyroid abnormalities in Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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- Adjoa Smalls-Mantey
- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York.,Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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- Adolescent/Young Adult Center for Health, Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey
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- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.,Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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Perrin L, Loizides-Mangold U, Skarupelova S, Pulimeno P, Chanon S, Robert M, Bouzakri K, Modoux C, Roux-Lombard P, Vidal H, Lefai E, Dibner C. Human skeletal myotubes display a cell-autonomous circadian clock implicated in basal myokine secretion. Mol Metab 2015; 4:834-45. [PMID: 26629407 PMCID: PMC4632112 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2015.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2015] [Revised: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Circadian clocks are functional in all light-sensitive organisms, allowing an adaptation to the external world in anticipation of daily environmental changes. In view of the potential role of the skeletal muscle clock in the regulation of glucose metabolism, we aimed to characterize circadian rhythms in primary human skeletal myotubes and investigate their roles in myokine secretion. METHODS We established a system for long-term bioluminescence recording in differentiated human myotubes, employing lentivector gene delivery of the Bmal1-luciferase and Per2-luciferase core clock reporters. Furthermore, we disrupted the circadian clock in skeletal muscle cells by transfecting siRNA targeting CLOCK. Next, we assessed the basal secretion of a large panel of myokines in a circadian manner in the presence or absence of a functional clock. RESULTS Bioluminescence reporter assays revealed that human skeletal myotubes, synchronized in vitro, exhibit a self-sustained circadian rhythm, which was further confirmed by endogenous core clock transcript expression. Moreover, we demonstrate that the basal secretion of IL-6, IL-8 and MCP-1 by synchronized skeletal myotubes has a circadian profile. Importantly, the secretion of IL-6 and several additional myokines was strongly downregulated upon siClock-mediated clock disruption. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides for the first time evidence that primary human skeletal myotubes possess a high-amplitude cell-autonomous circadian clock, which could be attenuated. Furthermore, this oscillator plays an important role in the regulation of basal myokine secretion by skeletal myotubes.
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- Laurent Perrin
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM U1060, INRA 1397, University Lyon 1, Oullins, France
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- Department of Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medical Specialties, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medical Specialties, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM U1060, INRA 1397, University Lyon 1, Oullins, France
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- CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM U1060, INRA 1397, University Lyon 1, Oullins, France
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Saini C, Brown SA, Dibner C. Human peripheral clocks: applications for studying circadian phenotypes in physiology and pathophysiology. Front Neurol 2015; 6:95. [PMID: 26029154 PMCID: PMC4429585 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Most light-sensitive organisms on earth have acquired an internal system of circadian clocks allowing the anticipation of light or darkness. In humans, the circadian system governs nearly all aspects of physiology and behavior. Circadian phenotypes, including chronotype, vary dramatically among individuals and over individual lifespan. Recent studies have revealed that the characteristics of human skin fibroblast clocks correlate with donor chronotype. Given the complexity of circadian phenotype assessment in humans, the opportunity to study oscillator properties by using cultured primary cells has the potential to uncover molecular details difficult to assess directly in humans. Since altered properties of the circadian oscillator have been associated with many diseases including metabolic disorders and cancer, clock characteristics assessed in additional primary cell types using similar technologies might represent an important tool for exploring the connection between chronotype and disease, and for diagnostic purposes. Here, we review implications of this approach for gathering insights into human circadian rhythms and their function in health and disease.
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- Camille Saini
- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich , Zürich , Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland
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