The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: A Clock of Multiple Components
| Autor: | Han S. Lee, Michael N. Lehman, Heather J. Billings |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Physiology Neuropeptide Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Rhythm Neurochemical Biological Clocks Physiology (medical) medicine Animals Circadian rhythm Phosphorylation Neurons Regulation of gene expression Suprachiasmatic nucleus Neuropeptides Phenotype Circadian Rhythm 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Expression Regulation nervous system Suprachiasmatic Nucleus sense organs Nucleus Neuroscience Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Rhythms. 18:435-449 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4531 0748-7304 |
| Popis: | Although impressive progress has been made in understanding the molecular basis of pacemaker function in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), fundamental questions about cellular and regional heterogeneity within the SCN, andhowthis heterogeneity might contribute toSCNpacemaker function at a tissue level, have remained unresolved. To reexamine cellular and regional heterogeneity within the SCN, the authors have focused on two key questions: which SCN cells are endogenously rhythmic and/or directly light responsive? Observations of endogenous rhythms of electrical activity, gene/protein expression, and protein phosphorylation suggest that the SCN in mammals examined to dateis composed of anatomically distinct rhythmic and nonrhythmic components. Endogenously rhythmic neurons are primarily found in rostral, dorsomedial, and ventromedial portions of the nucleus; at mid and caudal levels, the distribution of endogenously rhythmic cells in the SCN has the appearance of a “shell.” The majority of nonrhythmic cells, by contrast, are located in a central “core” region of the SCN, which is complementary to the shell. The location of light-responsive cells, defined by direct retinohypothalamic input and light-induced gene expression, largely overlaps the location of nonrhythmic cells in the SCN core, although, in hamsters and mice light-responsive cells are also present in the ventral portion of the rhythmic shell. While the relative positions of rhythmic and light-responsive components of the SCN are similar between species, the precise boundaries of these components, and neurochemical phenotype of cells within them, are variable. Intercellular communication between these components may bea key featurer esponsiblefor theuniquepace maker properties of the SCN observed at a tissue and whole animal level. |
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