FUNCTIONAL-ANALYSIS OF CIRCADIAN PACEMAKERS IN NOCTURNAL RODENTS .4. ENTRAINMENT - PACEMAKER AS CLOCK
FUNCTIONAL-ANALYSIS OF CIRCADIAN PACEMAKERS IN NOCTURNAL RODENTS .4. ENTRAINMENT - PACEMAKER AS CLOCK
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01417859
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
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DAAN, S
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PITTENDRIGH, CS;DAAN, S
The non-parametric entrainment model of circadian pacemakers of nocturnal rodents [Mesocricetus auratus, Mus musculus, Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus] is tested in experiments using 1 or 2 light pulses/cycle. Mesocricetus auratus and P. leucopus entrain to zeitgebers involving 1 pulse (15'' or 60'')/cycle. The phase angle differences (.psi.) between rhythm and light cycle depend on the pacemaker period (.tau.) and light cycle period (T). Entrainment of P. leucopus is unstable due to the after effects on .tau. created by the light pulse. The limiting values of zeitgeber period to which the animals entrain are much closer to 24 h than in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Frequent failures to entrain to T = 23 and T = 25 h are only explained by considerable interindividual variation in both .tau. and PRC [phase response curve]. With 2 pulses/cycle, the phase relationships match predictions for skeleton photoperiods up to about 14 h. Increasing asymmetry forces animals into a phase jump, so that activity shifts from the shorter to the longer interval. These are accurately predicted in the hamster, but they occur at much longer photoperiods than predicted in P. leucopus. The model, using a rigidly fixed species .tau. and PRC, is inadequate to explain entrainment. Variations in .tau. and PRC-shape, restricts the validity of the predictions. From agreement between experiment and prediction, from the close correspondence between complete and skeleton photoperiods and from behavior, non-parametric entrainment by short light signals has a major share in the entrainment of nocturnal rodent rhythms in nature. Computer simulations of artificial pacemakers with variable .tau. and PRC are used. The very circadian nature of these pacemakers conserves .psi. sensitive to instabilities in .tau. when .hivin..tau. is close to 24 h. To analyze the contributions to .psi.-conservation with seasonally changing photoperiod, the activity phase with respect to dusk (nocturnal animals) or to dawn (diurnal animals) was conserved. Three contributions of nocturnal pacemaker behavior to this type of .psi.-conservation were noted: increased amplitude of the PRC, asymmetry in the PRC, such that the slope of the delay-part is steeper than the slope of the advance-part, and a short freerunning period in DD. Parametric effects of light, not traceable by the model, and effective in preventing in complete photoperiods the .psi.-jump, were noted. Parametric effects are demonstrated by the change of .tau. with light intensity in LL. An attempt is made to distinguish the features of circadian clocks necessary for entrainment to occur, for time lapse measurement or for local time identification.