Affiliation:
1. Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Laboratory, Sleep Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305
Abstract
Light exposure during the early and late subjective night generally phase delays and advances circadian rhythms, respectively. However, this generality was recently questioned in a photic entrainment study in Octodon degus. Because degus can invert their activity phase preference from diurnal to nocturnal as a function of activity level, assessment of phase preference is critical for computations of phase reference [circadian time (CT) 0] toward the development of a photic phase response curve. After determining activity phase preference in a 24-h light-dark cycle (LD 12:12), degus were released in constant darkness. In this study, diurnal ( n = 5) and nocturnal ( n = 7) degus were randomly subjected to 1-h light pulses (30–35 lx) at many circadian phases (CT 1–6: n= 7; CT 7–12: n = 8; CT 13–18: n = 8; and CT 19–24: n = 7). The circadian phase of body temperature (Tb) onset was defined as CT 12 in nocturnal animals. In diurnal animals, CT 0 was determined as Tb onset + 1 h. Light phase delayed and advanced circadian rhythms when delivered during the early (CT 13–16) and late (CT 20–23) subjective night, respectively. No significant phase shifts were observed during the middle of the subjective day (CT 3–10). Thus, regardless of activity phase preference, photic entrainment of the circadian pacemaker in Octodon degus is similar to most other diurnal and nocturnal species, suggesting that entrainment mechanisms do not determine overt diurnal and nocturnal behavior.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
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