Network structure of the master clock is important for its primary function

C Gu, J Li, J Zhou, H Yang, J Rohling - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A master clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) regulates the circadian rhythm
of physiological and behavioral activities in mammals. The SCN has two main functions in …

Telling the seasons underground: the circadian clock and ambient temperature shape light exposure and photoperiodism in a subterranean rodent

DEFL Flôres, MG Jannetti, GC Improta… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Living organisms anticipate the seasons by tracking the proportion of light and darkness
hours within a day—photoperiod. The limits of photoperiod measurement can be …

Generation and disruption of circadian rhythms in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: a core-shell model

AV Goltsev, EAP Wright… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We focus our research on how the core-shell organization controls behavior of the
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), how the core and shell are synchronized to the …

Emergent Synchronous Volumetric Oscillation in Hierarchically Structured Self-Oscillating Gel Clusters

WS Lee, T Enomoto, AM Akimoto… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Emergent properties accompanying synchronization among oscillators are vital
characteristics in biological systems. Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) oscillators are an artificial …

Emergent synchronous beating behavior in spontaneous beating cardiomyocyte clusters

K Sakamoto, Y Hondo, N Takahashi, Y Tanaka… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We investigated the dominant rule determining synchronization of beating intervals of
cardiomyocytes after the clustering of mouse primary and human embryonic-stem-cell (hES) …

Reduced Plasticity in Coupling Strength in the Aging SCN Clock as Revealed by Kuramoto Modeling

AW van Beurden, JM Meylahn… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The mammalian circadian clock is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and
consists of a network of coupled neurons, which are entrained to the environmental light …

Complete and Partial Synchronization of Two-Group and Three-Group Kuramoto Oscillators

SH Chen, CH Hsia, TY Hsiao - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2024 - SIAM
This paper is to investigate synchronization theories of a two-group Kuramoto model and a
three-group Kuramoto model. In the settings of these models, every oscillator directly …

Phase-shift of cellular coupling induces the anti-phase synchronization between the left and right suprachiasmatic nucleus

C Gu, Y Zhang, W Zheng, H Wang, H Yang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - World Scientific
Exposed to the constant light, the master clock located in the bilaterally paired
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) above the optic chiasma exhibits three rhythmic behaviors …

Two-community noisy Kuramoto model with general interaction strengths. II

S Achterhof, JM Meylahn - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We generalize the study of the noisy Kuramoto model, considered on a network of two
interacting communities, to the case where the interaction strengths within and across …

Reduced plasticity in coupling strength in the SCN clock in aging as revealed by Kuramoto modelling

AW van Beurden, JM Meylahn, S Achterhof, JH Meijer… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The mammalian circadian clock is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and consist
of a network of coupled neurons, which are entrained to the environmental light-dark cycle …