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 …

The entrainment of circadian systems is essential for their functional significance as well as
for our insight into their physiologic organization. Entrainment entails the adjustment of both …

It is a great honor for me to present this first Pittendrigh lecture. I do so as the stand-in for
Professor Jürgen Aschoff, who of course was invited to speak on the occasion but whose …

Humans are an excellent model system for studying entrainment of the circadian clock in the
real world. Unlike the situation in laboratory experiments, entrainment under natural …

Of the three defining properties of circadian rhythmicity—persisting free‐running rhythm,
temperature compensation, and entrainment—the last is often poorly understood by many …

The traditional approaches to predict entrainment of circadian clocks by light are based on 2
concepts that were never successfully unified: the non-parametric approach assumes that …

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Circadian rhythms have long been the subject of intrigue and speculation. For instance,
Darwin favored the notion that the daily leaf movements of plants were the result of an …

Mammalian circadian rhythms are controlled by endogenous biological oscillators, including
a master clock located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). Since the period …

Circadian clocks are endogenous oscillators driving daily rhythms in physiology and
behavior. Synchronization of these timers to environmental light–dark cycles ('entrainment') …