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The Art of Entrainment
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The circadian system actively synchronizes the temporal sequence of biological functions with the environment. The oscillatory behavior of the system ensures that entrainment is not passive or driven and therefore allows for great plasticity and adaptive potential. With the tools at hand, we now can concentrate on the most important circadian question: How is the complex task of entrainment achieved by anatomical, cellular, and molecular components? Understanding entrainment is equal to understanding the circadian system. The results of this basic research will help us to understand temporal ecology and will allow us to improve conditions for humans in industrialized societies.
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“Thus, free days after evening shifts are best suited as analogy to mid-sleep on free days in day-working populations (Roenneberg et al., 2003).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialReconfiguration of a Multi-oscillator Network by Light in the Drosophila Circadian Clock
Chatterjee, A., Lamaze, A., De, J., Mena, W., Chélot, E., Martin, B., Hardin, P. E., Kadener, S., Emery, P., & Rouyer, F. (2018) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.064 · Cited by 84
The circadian system, sleep, and the health/disease balance: a conceptual review
Roenneberg, T., Foster, F., & Klerman, E. B. (2022) · Journal of Sleep Research · doi:10.1111/jsr.13621 · Cited by 81
van der Linden, A. M., Beverly, M., Kadener, S., Rodriguez, J., Wasserman, S. M., Rosbash, M., & Sengupta, P. (2010) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000503 · Cited by 79
Start the clock! Circadian rhythms and development
Vallone, D., Lahiri, K., Dickmeis, T., & Foulkes, N. S. (2006) · Developmental Dynamics · doi:10.1002/dvdy.20998 · Cited by 78
“ronment (Roenneberg et al., 2003).”
BackgroundRoenneberg, T., Chua, E. J., Bernardo, R., & Mendoza, E. (2008) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.017 · Cited by 74
Sleep and light exposure across different levels of urbanisation in Brazilian communities
Pilz, L. K., Levandovski, R. M., de Oliveira, M. A. B., Hidalgo, M. P. L., & Roenneberg, T. (2018) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29494-4 · Cited by 68
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Is Critical for Circadian Regulation of Glucocorticoids
Loh, D. H., Abad, C., Colwell, C. S., & Waschek, J. A. (2008) · Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1159/000140676 · Cited by 69
“In support of this, our study shows that mice lacking VIP not only in the hypothalamus but also in the adrenals are capable of mounting a normal corticosterone response to acute stress. Taken together with the ability of VIP-deficient mice to maintain normal basal concentration of corticosterone, we can conclude that…”
BackgroundBlue-enriched office light competes with natural light as a zeitgeber
Vetter, C., Juda, M., Lang, D., Wojtysiak, A., & Roenneberg, T. (2011) · Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health · doi:10.5271/sjweh.3144 · Cited by 66
“Periodic signals of the environment (zeitgebers) synchronize this circadian (about one day) rhythm to the 24-hour rotation of the earth (1).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialZeitgebers (time cues) for biological clocks
Sharma, V. K., & Chandrashekaran, M. K. (2005) · Cited by 61
Entrainment in a Model of the Mammalian Circadian Oscillator
Geier, F. M., Becker-Weimann, S., Kramer, A., & Herzel, H. (2005) · Journal of Biological Rhythms · doi:10.1177/0748730404269309 · Cited by 62
Epigenetic Regulation of Biological Rhythms: An Evolutionary Ancient Molecular Timer
Stevenson, T. J. (2017) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2017.11.003 · Cited by 66
Kolodyazhniy, V., Späti, J., Frey, S., Götz, T., Wirz‐Justice, A., Kräuchi, K., Cajochen, C., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2012) · Chronobiology International · doi:10.3109/07420528.2012.700669 · Cited by 59
“Light is the major zeitgeber responsible for entraining the circadian clock to the external day (Roenneberg et al., 2003).”
BackgroundMethodMracek, P., Santoriello, C., Idda, M. L., Pagano, C., Ben-Moshe, Z., Gothilf, Y., Vallone, D., & Foulkes, N. S. (2012) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051278 · Cited by 60
“The most commonly employed environmental signal or so-called ‘‘zeitgeber’’ is light although others include temperature and food availability [7,8].”
BackgroundEntrainment Dissociates Transcription and Translation of a Circadian Clock Gene in Neurospora
Tan, Y. C., Dragovic, Z., Roenneberg, T., & Merrow, M. W. (2004) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.035 · Cited by 60
Timing of host feeding drives rhythms in parasite replication
Prior, K. F., van der Veen, D. R., O’Donnell, A. J., Cumnock, K., Schneider, D. S., Pain, A., Subudhi, A. K., Ramaprasad, A., Rund, S. S. C., Savill, N. J., et al. (2018) · PLoS Pathogens · doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006900 · Cited by 59
“In most organisms, endogenous circadian oscillators (“clocks”) involve transcription-translation feedback loops whose timing is synchronised to external cues, such as light-dark and feeding-fasting cycles [9,10] but there is generally little homology across taxa in the genes underpinning oscillators.”
BackgroundWare, J. V., Nelson, O. L., Robbins, C. T., & Jansen, H. T. (2012) · American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology · doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00313.2012 · Cited by 59
“Entrainment of the circadian clock combined with the 102 direct masking effects of light and dark are therefore thought to be major determinants of activity 103 patterns in animals (10, 65, 71).”
Studying the Evolution of the Vertebrate Circadian Clock
Foulkes, N. S., Whitmore, D., Vallone, D., & Bertolucci, C. (2016) · Advances in genetics · doi:10.1016/bs.adgen.2016.05.002 · Cited by 57
Kolodyazhniy, V., Späti, J., Frey, S., Götz, T., Wirz‐Justice, A., Kräuchi, K., Cajochen, C., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2011) · Journal of Biological Rhythms · doi:10.1177/0748730410391619 · Cited by 58
Chronotype and environmental light exposure in a student population
Porcheret, K., Lucien Wald, A., Fritschi, L., Gerkema, M. P., Gordijn, M. C. M., Merrrow, M., Rajaratnam, S. M. W., Rock, D. J., Sletten, T. L., Warman, G. R., et al. (2018) · Chronobiology International · doi:10.1080/07420528.2018.1482556 · Cited by 60
“Differences in the relationships between an individual ’ s circadian phase and external local time give rise to a distribution of chron-otypes across the population, ranging from early chronotypes, the proverbial “ larks ” , to late chrono-types termed “ owls ” (Roenneberg et al. 2003a).”
BackgroundMethodSites of Circadian Clock Neuron Plasticity Mediate Sensory Integration and Entrainment
Fernandez, M. P., Pettibone, H. L., Bogart, J. T., Roell, C. J., Davey, C. E., Pranevicius, A., Huynh, K. V., Lennox, S. M., Kostadinov, B., & Shafer, O. T. (2020) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.025 · Cited by 57
Mongrain, V., Paquet, J., & Dumont, M. (2006) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.002 · Cited by 56
Musicians’ Natural Frequencies of Performance Display Optimal Temporal Stability
Zamm, A., Wang, Y., & Palmėr, C. (2018) · Journal of Biological Rhythms · doi:10.1177/0748730418783651 · Cited by 55
Towards a framework for light-dosimetry studies: Methodological considerations
Hartmeyer, S. L., Webler, F. S., & Andersen, M. (2022) · Lighting Research & Technology · doi:10.1177/14771535221103258 · Cited by 55
Canavier, C. C. (2006) · Scholarpedia · doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.1332 · Cited by 54
Spoelstra, K., Verhagen, I., Meijer, D., & Visser, M. E. (2018) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.2751 · Cited by 52
Entrainment of circadian rhythms to irregular light/dark cycles: a subterranean perspective
Flôres, D. E. F. L., Jannetti, M. G., Valentinuzzi, V. S., & Oda, G. A. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep34264 · Cited by 50
Circadian clocks: an overview on its adaptive significance
Krittika, S., & Yadav, P. (2020) · Biological Rhythm Research · doi:10.1080/09291016.2019.1581480 · Cited by 50
A Role for Blind DN2 Clock Neurons in Temperature Entrainment of the Drosophila Larval Brain
Picot, M., Klarsfeld, A., Chélot, E., Malpel, S., & Rouyer, F. (2009) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0279-08.2009 · Cited by 49
“, 2005), synchronized to the day–night cycles by light and temperature (Rensing and Ruoff, 2002; Roenneberg et al., 2003).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Roenneberg, T., Daan, S., & Merrow, M.
- Affiliations
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie (DE)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Venue
- Journal of Biological Rhythms
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-06
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 183-194
- ISSN
- 0748-7304 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-4531
- OpenAlex
- W2129473744
- Cited by
- 387
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 1.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Biological Rhythms (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- circadian entrainment, circadian system, biological oscillations, circadian plasticity, circadian adaptation, temporal ecology
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biological Clocks, Circadian Rhythm, Humans, Photoperiod
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