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ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology2015

The cost of circadian desynchrony: Evidence, insights and open questions.

Alexander C West, David A Bechtold

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Review in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Lack of GPNMB Is Associated With Altered Lipid and Glucose Metabolism and Disrupted Diurnal Hepatic Glycogen Regulation.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  9. Circadian clock disruption promotes retinal photoreceptor degeneration.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  11. Chrononutrition in Critical Illness.Nutrition reviews · 2025
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  14. Phenotypic and fitness consequences of plasticity in the rhythmic replication of malaria parasites.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  17. Genetic synchronization of the brain and liver molecular clocks defend against chrono-metabolic disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  20. Circadian Regulation of Lipid Metabolism during Pregnancy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alexander C WestFaculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
David A BechtoldFaculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I018654/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J017744/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L007665/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coordinated daily rhythms are evident in most aspects of our physiology, driven by internal timing systems known as circadian clocks. Our understanding of how biological clocks are built and function has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. With this has come an appreciation that disruption of the clock contributes to the pathophysiology of numerous diseases, from metabolic disease to neurological disorders to cancer. However, it remains to be determined whether it is the disruption of our rhythmic physiology per se (loss of timing itself), or altered functioning of individual clock components that drive pathology. Here, we review the importance of circadian rhythms in terms of how we (and other organisms) relate to the external environment, but also in relation to how internal physiological processes are coordinated and synchronized. These issues are of increasing importance as many aspects of modern life put us in conflict with our internal clockwork.

Indexed as

Circadian ClocksAnimalsCircadian RhythmHumansSleep Disorders, Circadian RhythmSuprachiasmatic Nucleusbiological rhythmcircadianclockmetabolismobesitySCNshift-work

Identifiers

PMID26010005
PMCPMC4973832

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