Communicating clocks shape circadian homeostasis

Abstract

Regulating multiple body clocks Circadian rhythms that affect multiple tissues and organ systems are aligned with the dark-light cycle and other external inputs such as feeding. But how is such time keeping modulated throughout complex systems and anatomical regions? Koronowski and Sassone-Corsi reviewed how central regulators in the brain and peripheral regulators throughout organs can behave cooperatively or independently to modulate circadian rhythms. This systemic view of circadian rhythm modulation is important to understand behavior and disease, because dysregulated clocks are associated with metabolic syndrome and cancer. Science , this issue p. eabd0951