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ReviewEndocrinology2020

Light and Hormones in Seasonal Regulation of Reproduction and Mood.

Junfeng Chen, Kousuke Okimura, Takashi Yoshimura

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Review in Endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. The Effects of Light on Vertebrate Welfare: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  10. Seasonal Variation in Gut Microbiota of the Wild Daurian Ground Squirrel (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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  16. Insufficient reporting of experimental variables as a cause for nonreproducibility in animal physiology? A case study.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2022
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  18. Characterization ofFrontiers in physiology · 2021
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junfeng ChenInstitute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Kousuke OkimuraInstitute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Takashi YoshimuraInstitute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms that inhabit the temperate zone exhibit various seasonal adaptive behaviors, including reproduction, hibernation, molting, and migration. Day length, known as photoperiod, is the most noise-free and widely used environmental cue that enables animals to anticipate the oncoming seasons and adapt their physiologies accordingly. Although less clear, some human traits also exhibit seasonality, such as birthrate, mood, cognitive brain responses, and various diseases. However, the molecular basis for human seasonality is poorly understood. Herein, we first review the underlying mechanisms of seasonal adaptive strategies of animals, including seasonal reproduction and stress responses during the breeding season. We then briefly summarize our recent discovery of signaling pathways involved in the winter depression-like phenotype in medaka fish. We believe that exploring the regulation of seasonal traits in animal models will provide insight into human seasonality and aid in the understanding of human diseases such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalLightSeasonsAffectAnimalsHormonesHumansPhotoperiodReproductionRisk FactorsSeasonal Affective DisorderHormonesphotoperiodseasonal adaptationseasonal affective disorder (SAD)seasonal reproductionstress response

Identifiers

PMID32738138
PMCPMC7442225
OpenAlexW3046519192

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