Time is of the essence: The importance of considering biological rhythms in an increasingly polluted world

ESJ Thoré, AE Aulsebrook, JA Brand, RA Almeida… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Biological rhythms have a crucial role in shaping the biology and ecology of organisms.
Light pollution is known to disrupt these rhythms, and evidence is emerging that chemical …

Effects of the neonatal intensive care environment on circadian health and development of preterm infants

D Van Gilst, AV Puchkina, JA Roelants… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The circadian system in mammals ensures adaptation to the light-dark cycle on Earth and
imposes 24-h rhythmicity on metabolic, physiological and behavioral processes. The central …

Synchronization in slowly switching networks of coupled oscillators

J Zhou, Y Zou, S Guan, Z Liu, S Boccaletti - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Networks whose structure of connections evolves in time constitute a big challenge in the
study of synchronization, in particular when the time scales for the evolution of the graph …

Cut the noise or couple up: Coordinating circadian and synthetic clocks

CN Micklem, JCW Locke - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Circadian clocks are important to much of life on Earth and are of inherent interest to
humanity, implicated in fields ranging from agriculture and ecology to developmental biology …

Motif structure for the four subgroups within the suprachiasmatic nuclei affects its entrainment ability

W Zheng, C Gu, H Yang, JHT Rohling - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Circadian rhythms of physiological and behavioral activities are regulated by a central clock.
This clock is located in the bilaterally symmetrical suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of …

Impact of dispersed coupling strength on the free running periods of circadian rhythms

C Gu, JHT Rohling, X Liang, H Yang - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
The dominant endogenous clock, named the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), regulates
circadian rhythms of behavioral and physiological activity in mammals. One of the main …

The synchronization of neuronal oscillators determined by the directed network structure of the suprachiasmatic nucleus under different photoperiods

C Gu, M Tang, H Yang - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The main function of the principal clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of
mammals is synchronizing the body rhythms to the 24 h light-dark cycle. Additionally, the …

Heterogeneity induces rhythms of weakly coupled circadian neurons

C Gu, X Liang, H Yang, JHT Rohling - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The main clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) regulates circadian rhythms in
mammals. The SCN is composed of approximately twenty thousand heterogeneous self …

Electrical activities of neural systems exposed to sinusoidal induced electric field with random phase

L Du, ZL Cao, YM Lei, ZC Deng - Science China Technological Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The brain neural system is often disturbed by electromagnetic and noise environments, and
research on dynamic response of its interaction has received extensive attention. This paper …

The circadian rhythm induced by the heterogeneous network structure of the suprachiasmatic nucleus

C Gu, H Yang - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
In mammals, the master clock is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which is
composed of about 20 000 nonidentical neuronal oscillators expressing different intrinsic …