Persistence of circadian oscillation while locomotor activity and plasma melatonin levels became aperiodic under prolonged continuous light in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-52

  Honma, Sato ^a   Kanematsu, Nobue ^a   Katsuno, Yumiko ^a   Honma, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aperiodism; Circadian rhythm; Locomotor activity; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030595291     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13006-8     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. [1] Binkley, S., Constant light: effects on the circadian locomotor rhythm in the house sparrow, Physiol. Zool., 50 (1977) 170-181.
2. [2] Deprés-Brummer, P., Levi, F., Metzger, G. and Touitou, Y., Light-induced suppression of the rat circadian system, Am. J. Physiol., 268 (1995) R1111-R1116.
3. [3] Deguchi, T. and Axelrod, J., Control of circadian change of serotonin N-acetyltransferase activity in the pineal organ by the β-adrenergic receptor, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 69 (1972) 2547-2550.
4. [4] Honma, K. and Hiroshige, T., Endogenous ultradian rhythms in rats exposed to prolonged continuous light, Am. J. Physiol., 235 (1978) R250-R256.
5. [5] Honma, K., Honma, S. and Hiroshige, T., Response curve, free-running period, and activity time in circadian locomotor rhythm of rats, Jpn. J. Physiol., 35 (1985) 634-658.
6. [6] Honma, S., Honma, K. and Hiroshige, T., Methamphetamine effects in rat circadian clock depend on actograph, Physiol. Behav., 49 (1991) 787-795.
7. [7] Honma, S., Kanematsu, N., Katsuno, Y. and Honma, K., Light suppression of nocturnal pineal and plasma melatonin in rats depends on wave length and time of day, Neurosci. Lett., 147 (1992) 201-204.
8. [8] Kanematsu, N., Honma, S., Katsuno, Y. and Honma, K., Immediate response to light of rat pineal melatonin rhythm: analysis by in vivo microdialysis, Am. J. Physiol., 266 (1994) R1849-R1885.
9. [9] Kawashima, K., Nagakura, A., Wurzburger, R.J. and Spector, S., Melatonin in serum and the pineal of spontaneously hypertensive rats, Clin. Exp. Hypertens. (Part A, Theory Practice), A6 (1984) 1517-1528.
10. [10] Mason, R., The effects of continuous light exposure on Syrian hamster suprachiasmatic (SCN) neuronal discharge activity in vitro, Neurosci, Lett., 123 (1991) 160-163.
11. [11] Pangerl, B., Pangerl, A. and Reiter, R.J., Circadian variations of adrenergic receptors in the mammalian pineal gland, J. Neural Transm., 81 (1990) 17-29.
12. [12] Pittendrigh, C.S., Circadian systems: entrainment. In J. Aschoff (Ed.). Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, Vol. 4, Biological Rhythms, Plenum Press. New York, 1981, pp. 95-124.
13. [13] Schwartz, W.J., Gross, R.A. and Morton, M.T., The suprachiasmatic nuclei contain an tetrodotoxin-resistant circadian pacemaker, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 84 (1987) 1694-1698.
14. [14] Stehle, J.H., Foulkes, N.S., Molina, C.A., Simonneaux, V., Pevet, P. and Sassone-Corsi, P., Adrenergic signals direct rhythmic expression of transcriptional repressor CREM in the pineal gland, Nature, 23 (1993) 314-320.
15. [15] Veněčhek, J. and Illenerová, H., Night pineal N-acetyltransferase activity in rats exposed to white or red pulses of various intensity and duration, Experientia, 38 (1982) 1318-1320.