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ReviewJournal of biological rhythms2009

Basis of robustness and resilience in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: individual neurons form nodes in circuits that cycle daily.

Matthew P Butler, Rae Silver

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Review in Journal of biological rhythms, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Modulating the Excitability of Olfactory Output Neurons Affects Whole-Body Metabolism.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  9. The role of the circadian system in fractal neurophysiological control.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2013
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  13. Twelve-hour days in the brain and behavior of split hamsters.The European journal of neuroscience · 2012
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  15. Period coding of Bmal1 oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012
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  17. Chronobiological approaches to Alzheimer's disease.Current Alzheimer research · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew P ButlerDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Rae Silver
Columbia University · US

Funding

Hormones: Molecular Mechanism of Action and FunctionsT32DK007328 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI KOUSTENI, STAVROULA · 1986 to 2025
$7.8M
PHYSIOLOGICAL DISSECTION OF THE SCNR01NS037919 · NINDS · BARNARD COLLEGE · PI SILVER, RAE · 1998 to 2010
$3.3M
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) networks and efferent signalsR01MH075045 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI SILVER, RAE · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007328NIDDK NIH HHS T32DK07328NIMH NIH HHS MH075045NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH075045NINDS NIH HHS NS37919NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS037919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How the cellular elements of the SCN are synchronized to each other is not well understood. We explore circadian oscillations manifest at the level of the cell, the tissue, and the whole animal to better understand intra-SCN synchrony and master clock function of the nucleus. At each level of analysis, responses to variations in operating environment (robustness), and following damage to components of the system (resilience), provide insight into the mechanisms whereby the SCN orchestrates circadian timing. Tissue level rhythmicity reveals circuits associated with an orderly spatiotemporal daily pattern of activity that is not predictable from their cellular elements. Specifically, in stable state, some SCN regions express low amplitude or undetectable rhythms in clock gene expression while others produce high amplitude oscillations. Within the SCN, clock gene expression follows a spatially ordered, repeated pattern of activation and inactivation. This pattern of activation is plastic and subserves responses to changes in external and internal conditions. Just as daily rhythms at the cellular level depend on sequential expression and interaction of clock genes, so too do rhythms at the SCN tissue level depend on sequential activation of local nodes. We hypothesize that individual neurons are organized into nodes that are themselves sequentially activated across the volume of the SCN in a cycle that repeats on a daily basis. We further propose that robustness is expressed in the ability of the SCN to sustain rhythmicity over a wide range of internal and external conditions, and that this reflects plasticity of the underlying nodes and circuits. Resilience is expressed in the ability of SCN cells to oscillate and to sustain activity-related rhythms at the behavioral level. Importantly, other aspects of pacemaker function remain to be examined.

Indexed as

Nerve NetNeuronsSuprachiasmatic NucleusAnimalsBiological ClocksCircadian RhythmNeural PathwaysNeuropeptidesNeurotransmitter AgentsPhotoperiodNeuropeptidesNeurotransmitter Agents

Identifiers

PMID19755580
PMCPMC3104278
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