Principles, mechanisms and functions of entrainment in biological oscillators

A Jiménez, Y Lu, A Jambhekar… - Interface Focus, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Entrainment is a phenomenon in which two oscillators interact with each other, typically
through physical or chemical means, to synchronize their oscillations. This phenomenon …

Noise induces the population-level entrainment of incoherent, uncoupled intracellular oscillators

A Gupta, B Hepp, M Khammash - Cell systems, 2016 - cell.com
Intracellular oscillators entrain to periodic signals by adjusting their phase and frequency.
However, the low copy numbers of key molecular players make the dynamics of these …

Entrainment is NOT synchronization: an important distinction and its implications

EL Bittman - Journal of biological rhythms, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Still more substantively, to equate entrainment with synchronization is to miss its adaptive
significance. Synchronization indicates only a single-phase angle: zero. While some …

Entrainment of a population of synthetic genetic oscillators

O Mondragón-Palomino, T Danino, J Selimkhanov… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Biological clocks are self-sustained oscillators that adjust their phase to the daily
environmental cycles in a process known as entrainment. Molecular dissection and …

How to achieve fast entrainment? The timescale to synchronization

AE Granada, H Herzel - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Entrainment, where oscillators synchronize to an external signal, is ubiquitous in nature. The
transient time leading to entrainment plays a major role in many biological processes. Our …

Multi-synchronization and other patterns of multi-rhythmicity in oscillatory biological systems

A Goldbeter, J Yan - Interface Focus, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While experimental and theoretical studies have established the prevalence of rhythmic
behaviour at all levels of biological organization, less common is the coexistence between …

A design principle underlying the synchronization of oscillations in cellular systems

JR Kim, D Shin, SH Jung… - Journal of cell …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Biological oscillations are found ubiquitously in cells and are widely variable, with periods
varying from milliseconds to months, and scales involving subcellular components to large …

Dance to the rhythm, cautiously: Isolating unique indicators of oscillatory entrainment

A Breska, LY Deouell - PLoS biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The idea of entrainment of neural oscillations to temporal structure has become a central
theory for attentional selection in time [1, 2]. In our study [3], we separated unique …

Engineering entrainment and adaptation in limit cycle systems: From biological inspiration to applications in robotics

J Buchli, L Righetti, AJ Ijspeert - Biological Cybernetics, 2006 - Springer
Periodic behavior is key to life and is observed in multiple instances and at multiple time
scales in our metabolism, our natural environment, and our engineered environment. A …

Virtual synchronization towards the limits of the range of entrainment

R Wever - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1972 - Elsevier
Self-sustained oscillations can be synchronized by forcing oscillations only within limited
ranges of entrainment. Outside these ranges, they show “relative coordination”, with …