How to time the time - A preface to the special issue Circadian Rhythms in the Brain

Jörg H Stehle; Ajmal Zemmar; Laura Hausmann

doi:10.1111/jnc.15311

How to time the time - A preface to the special issue Circadian Rhythms in the Brain

J Neurochem. 2021 Apr;157(1):6-10. doi: 10.1111/jnc.15311. Epub 2021 Mar 16.

Authors

Jörg H Stehle^{1

2}, Ajmal Zemmar^{1

3

4

5}, Laura Hausmann⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Provincial People´s Hospital, Henan University People's Hospital, Henan University School of Medicine, Henan, China.
² Institute of Cellular and Molecular Anatomy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
³ Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Biology and Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

PMID: 33724468
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.15311

Abstract

In this Preface to the Journal of Neurochemistry special issue "Circadian Rhythms in the Brain", we summarize recent insights into connections between circadian rhythms and societal concerns related to aging and food intake, with consequences for healthy or aberrant metabolic homeostasis. The articles in this special issue were written by leading authors who presented their research at the 2019 Congress of the European Biological Rhythm Society, and are thus reflective of a broad variety of state-of-the-art research on all levels of chronobiology, from circadian rhythm generators in various tissues (including astrocytes) and the molecular mechanisms they base on, such as GABAergic regulation or ubiquitination, to the systems and behavioral level effects of chrono-nutrition and aging. Cover Image for this issue: https://doi.org/10.1111/jnc.15058.

Keywords: (TTFL); Chrono-nutrition; Chronomedicine; Journal of Neurochemistry Special Issue; Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Peptide (PACAP); Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN); Transcriptional/post-Translational Feedback Loop; obesity.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Astrocytes / metabolism
Brain / metabolism*
Circadian Rhythm / physiology*
Humans
Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide / metabolism*
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus / metabolism*
Time

Substances

Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide