ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2017
Effects of Dim Light at Night on Food Intake and Body Mass in Developing Mice.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Chronic exposure to artificial light at night dampens rhythms in locomotor activity, metabolism, and sleep in female mice.Physiology & behavior · 2026Article
- Timing of feeding mitigates metabolic effects of circadian disruption.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Article
- Short- and Long-Term Chrono-Immune Consequences of Dim Light at Night Exposure in Male Mice at Different Life Stages.Clocks & sleep · 2026Article
- Low-Intensity Constant Light During Early Postnatal Development Induces Sex-Specific Anxiety-Like Behaviour and Region- and Sex-Specific Changes in Circadian Gene Expression and RNA Editing.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Dietary melatonin supplementation mitigates the negative effects of artificial light at night in the Pacific field cricket,Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Acute Circadian Disruption Due to Constant Light Promotes Caspase 1 Activation in the Mouse Hippocampus.Cells · 2023Article
- Circadian regulation of mTORC1 signaling via Per2 dependent mechanism disrupts folliculogenesis and oocyte maturation in female mice.Journal of molecular histology · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in Circadian Rhythms.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2022Review
- Exposure to dim light at night alters daily rhythms of glucose and lipid metabolism in rats.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Real-Time Measurement of Energy Metabolism Over Circadian Time Using Indirect Calorimetry-Enabled Metabolic Cages.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Light at Night and Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Alter Physiology and Behavior.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Review
- Collecting mouse livers for transcriptome analysis of daily rhythms.STAR protocols · 2021Article
- Exposure to artificial light at night alters innate immune response in wild great tit nestlings.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Light at night during development in mice has modest effects on adulthood behavior and neuroimmune activation.Behavioural brain research · 2021Article
- Continuous Light Does Not Affect Atherosclerosis in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP Mice.Journal of biological rhythms · 2020Article
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- Differential Effects of Constant Light and Dim Light at Night on the Circadian Control of Metabolism and Behavior.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Blue light at night acutely impairs glucose tolerance and increases sugar intake in the diurnal rodent Arvicanthis ansorgei in a sex-dependent manner.Physiological reports · 2019Article
- Dim Light at Night and Constant Darkness: Two Frequently Used Lighting Conditions That Jeopardize the Health and Well-being of Laboratory Rodents.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Appropriately timed light is critical for circadian organization; exposure to dim light at night (dLAN) disrupts temporal organization of endogenous biological timing. Exposure to dLAN in adult mice is associated with elevated body mass and changes in metabolism putatively driven by voluntary changes in the time of food intake. We predicted that exposure of young mice to LAN could affect adult metabolic function. At 3 weeks (Experiment 1) or 5 weeks (Experiment 2) of age, mice were either maintained in standard light-dark (DARK) cycles or exposed to nightly dLAN (5 lux). In the first two experiments, food intake and locomotor activity were assessed after 4 weeks and a glucose tolerance test was administered after 6 weeks in experimental lighting conditions. In Experiment 3, tissues were collected around the clock at 6 h intervals to investigate rhythmic hepatic clock gene expression in mice exposed to dLAN from 3 or 5 weeks of age. Male and female mice exposed to dLAN beginning at 3 weeks of age displayed similar growth rates and body mass to DARK-reared offspring, despite increasing day-time food intake. Exposure to dLAN beginning at 5 weeks of age increased body mass and daytime food intake in male, but not female, mice. Consistent with the body mass phenotype, clock gene expression was unaltered in the liver. In contrast to adults, dLAN exposure during the development of the peripheral circadian system has sex- and development-dependent effects on body mass gain.
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