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 …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneity of neuronal properties determines the collective behavior of the neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

C Gu, P Wang, T Weng, H Yang… - Mathematical Biosciences …, 2019 - aimspress.com
Circadian rhythms have been observed in behavioral and physiological activities of living
things exposed to the natural 24 h light-darkness cycle. Interestingly, even under constant …

Noise-driven cellular heterogeneity in circadian periodicity

Y Li, Y Shan, RV Desai, KH Cox… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Nongenetic cellular heterogeneity is associated with aging and disease. However, the
origins of cell-to-cell variability are complex and the individual contributions of different …

Measuring relative coupling strength in circadian systems

C Schmal, ED Herzog, H Herzel - Journal of biological …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Modern imaging techniques allow the monitoring of circadian rhythms of single cells.
Coupling between these single cellular circadian oscillators can generate coherent periodic …

[HTML][HTML] Diurnal variations of resting-state fMRI data: A graph-based analysis

FV Farahani, W Karwowski, M D'Esposito, RF Betzel… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Circadian rhythms (lasting approximately 24 h) control and entrain various physiological
processes, ranging from neural activity and hormone secretion to sleep cycles and eating …

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 …

Heritable gene expression variability and stochasticity govern clonal heterogeneity in circadian period

KL Nikhil, S Korge, A Kramer - PLoS Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A ubiquitous feature of the circadian clock across life forms is its organization as a network of
cellular oscillators, with individual cellular oscillators within the network often exhibiting …

Diversity-induced trivialization and resilience of neural dynamics

A Hutt, D Trotter, A Pariz, TA Valiante… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Heterogeneity is omnipresent across all living systems. Diversity enriches the dynamical
repertoire of these systems but remains challenging to reconcile with their manifest …

Heterogeneity in GnRH and kisspeptin neurons and their significance in vertebrate reproductive biology

S Ogawa, IS Parhar - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2022 - Elsevier
Vertebrate reproduction is essentially controlled by the hypothalamus-pituitary–gonadal
(HPG) axis, which is a central dogma of reproductive biology. Two major hypothalamic …

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 …