Critical assessment of methods and concepts in nonphotic phase shifting

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-148

  Mrosovsky, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity; Circadian rhythms; Hamster; Methodology; Nonphotic; Phase response curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOSE RESPONSE; HAMSTER; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0032802424     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/brhm.30.2.135.1418     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Benus RF, Koolhaas JM, Van Oortmerssen GA (1988): Aggression and adaptation to the light-dark cycle: Role of intrinsic and extrinsic control. Physiol Behav 43: 131-137.
2. Biello SM, Janik D, Mrosovsky N (1994): Neuropeptide Y and behaviorally induced phase shifts. Neuroscience 62: 273-279.
3. Bobrzynska K, Mrosovsky N (1998): Phase-shifting by novelty-induced running: Activity dose response curves at different circadian times. J Comp Physiol A, 182: 251-258.
4. Bobrzynska KJ, Godfrey MH, Mrosovsky N (1996): Serotonergic stimulation and nonphotic phase-shifting in hamsters. Physiol Behav 59: 221-230.
5. Buxton OM, Frank SA, l'Hermite-Balériaux M, Leproult R, Turek FW, Van Cauter E (1997): Roles of intensity and duration of nocturnal exercise in causing phase delays of human circadian rhythms. Am J Physiol 273: E536-E542.
6. Edgar DM, Martin CE, Dement WC (1991): Activity feedback to the mammalian circadian pacemaker: influence on observed measures of rhythm period length. J Biol Rhythms 6: 185-199.
7. Gannon RL, REA MA (1995): Twelve-hour phase shifts of hamster circadian rhythms elicited by voluntary wheel running. J Biol Rhythm 10: 196-210.
8. Gattermann R, Weinandy R (1997): Time of day and stress response to different stressors in experimental animals. Part I: Golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse, 1839). J Expt Anim Sci 38: 66-76.
9. Gerkema MP, Daan S, Wilbrink M, Hop, MW, Van Der Leest F.(1993): Phase control of ultradian feeding rhythms in the common vole (Microtus arvalis): the roles of light and the circadian system. J Biol Rhythms 8: 151-171.
10. Gerkema MP, Videler JJ, De Wiljes J (in prep.) Photic entrainment of the circadian rest activity rhythm of the yellow wrasse Halichoeres chrysus.
11. Janik D, Mrosovsky N (1993): Nonphotically induced phase shifts of circadian rhythms in the golden hamster: activity-response curves at different ambient temperatures. Physiol Behav 53: 431-436.
12. Joy JE, Turek FW (1992): Combined effects on the circadian clock of agents with different phase response curves: phase-shifting effects of triazolam and light. J Biol Rhythms 7: 51-63.
13. Joy JE, Losee-Olson S, Turek FW (1989): Single injections of triazolam, a short-acting benzodiazepine, lengthen the period of the circadian activity rhythm in golden hamsters. Experientia 45: 152-154.
14. Marchant EG, Mistlberger RE (1995): Morphine phase-shifts circadian rhythms in mice: role of behavioural activation. Neuroreport 7: 209-212.
15. Mead S, Ebling FJP, Maywood ES, Humby T, Herbert J, Hastings MH (1992): A nonphotic stimulus causes instantaneous phase advances of the light-entrainable circadian oscillator of the Syrian hamster but does not induce the expression of c-fos in the suprachiasmatic nuclei. J Neurosci 12: 2516-2522.
16. Mrosovsky N (1988): Phase response curves for social entrainment. J Comp Physiol A, 162: 35-46.
17. Mrosovsky N (1991): Double-pulse experiments with nonphotic and photic phase-shifting stimuli. J Biol Rhythms 6: 167-179.
18. Mrosovsky N (1993): τ changes after single nonphotic events. Chronobiol Int 10: 271-276.
19. Mrosovsky N (1996): Locomotor activity and non-photic influences on circadian clocks. Biol Rev 71: 343-372.
20. Mrosovsky N, Biello SM (1994): Nonphotic phase shifting in the old and the cold. Chronobiol Int 11: 232-252.
21. Mrosovsky N, Salmon PA (1987): A behavioural method for accelerating re-entrainment of rhythms to new light-dark cycles. Nature 330: 372-373.
22. Mrosovsky N, Salmon PA (1990): Triazolam and phase-shifting acceleration re-evaluated. Chronobiol Int 7: 35-41.
23. Mrosovsky N, Salmon PA, Menaker M, Ralph MR (1992): Nonphotic phase shifting in hamster clock mutants. J Biol Rhythms 7: 41-49.
24. Pohl H (1982): Characteristics and variability in entrainment of circadian rhythms to light in diurnal rodents. In: Circadian Systems (J. Aschoff, S. Daan, and G.A. Groos, Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 340-346.
25. Popper KR (1959): The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London, p. 317.
26. Reebs SG, Doucet P (1997): Relationship between circadian period and size of phase shifts in Syrian hamsters. Physiol Behav 61: 661-666.
27. Reebs SG, Lavery RJ, Mrosovsky N (1989): Running activity mediates the phase-advancing effects of dark pulses on hamster circadian rhythms. J Comp Physiol A 165: 811-818.
28. Turek FW, Losee-Olson S (1986): A benzodiazepine used in the treatment of insomnia phase-shifts the mammalian circadian clock. Nature 321: 167-168.
29. Van Reeth O, Turek FW (1989): Stimulated activity mediates phase shifts in the hamster circadian clock induced by dark pulses or benzodiazepines. Nature 339: 49-51.
30. Van Reeth O, Sturis J, Byrne MM, Blackman JD, l'Hermite-Balériaux M, Leproult R, Oliner C, Refetoff S, Turek FW, Van Cauter E (1994): Nocturnal exercise phase delays circadian rhythms of melatonin and thyrotropin secretion in normal men. Am J Physiol 266: E964-E974.
31. Weinandy R, Gattermann R. (in press): Time of day and stress response to different stressors in experimental animals. Part II: Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). J Expt Anim Sci
32. Weisgerber D, Redlin U, Mrosovsky N (1997): Lengthening of circadian period in hamsters by novelty-induced wheel running. Physiol Behav 62: 759-765.
33. Yamada N, Shimoda K, Takahashi K, Takahashi S (1990): Relationship between free-running period and motor activity in blinded rats. Brain Res Bull 25: 115-119.