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Reassessing the involvement of the CREB pathway in the circadian clock of Drosophila melanogaster

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00015-z

Anna Katharina Eick, Maite Ogueta, Ralf Stanewsky

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Light exposure differs by sex in the US, with females receiving less bright light

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00016-y

Danielle A. Wallace

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Sleep and diurnal alternative polyadenylation sites associated with human APA-linked brain disorders 与人类 APA 相关脑部疾病有关的睡眠和昼夜替代多聚腺苷酸位点

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00012-2

Carlos C. Flores, Nickolas A. Pasetto, Hongyang Wang, Alexander G. Dimitrov, Jon F. Davis, Zhihua Jiang, Christopher J. Davis, Jason R. Gerstner

{"title":"Sleep and diurnal alternative polyadenylation sites associated with human APA-linked brain disorders","authors":"Carlos C. Flores, Nickolas A. Pasetto, Hongyang Wang, Alexander G. Dimitrov, Jon F. Davis, Zhihua Jiang, Christopher J. Davis, Jason R. Gerstner","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00012-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00012-2","url":null,"abstract":"Disruption of sleep and circadian rhythms are a comorbid feature of many pathologies, and can negatively influence many health conditions, including neurodegenerative disease, metabolic illness, cancer, and various neurological disorders. Genetic association studies linking sleep and circadian disturbances with disease susceptibility have mainly focused on changes in gene expression due to mutations, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The interaction between sleep and/or circadian rhythms with the use of Alternative Polyadenylation (APA) has been largely undescribed, particularly in the context of other disorders. APA generates transcript isoforms by utilizing various polyadenylation sites (PASs) from the same gene affecting its mRNA translation, stability, localization, and subsequent function. Here we identified unique APAs expressed in rat brain over time-of-day, immediately following sleep deprivation, and the subsequent recovery period. From these data, we performed a secondary analysis of these sleep- or time-of-day associated PASs with recently described APA-linked human brain disorder susceptibility genes.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00012-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bridging the gap: examining circadian biology and fatigue alongside work schedules 缩小差距：研究昼夜节律生物学和疲劳与工作时间表的关系

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00011-3

Malena Mul Fedele, Leandro P. Casiraghi, Santiago A. Plano, Giannina Bellone, Diego A. Golombek, Daniel E. Vigo

{"title":"Bridging the gap: examining circadian biology and fatigue alongside work schedules","authors":"Malena Mul Fedele, Leandro P. Casiraghi, Santiago A. Plano, Giannina Bellone, Diego A. Golombek, Daniel E. Vigo","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00011-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00011-3","url":null,"abstract":"We compared three different work schedules in a large oil company: 1) two days of 12 h of daytime shifts followed by two consecutive 12 h night shifts, followed by four work-free days (“2 x 2 x 4”), 2) four consecutive 12 h daytime shifts and four consecutive 12 h night shifts, flanked by four work-free days (“4 x 4 x 4”), 3) a non-rotating schedule involving continuous 12 h daytime shifts during 40 days (“fixed 12 h”). We measured wrist-actigraphy, peripheral temperature rhythms, and subjective self-reports regarding fatigue, somnolence, and psycho-affective features. Sleep duration on the resting period was significantly less than the recommended 7 h. The “2 x 2 x 4” schedule resulted in decreased sleep regularity and increased circadian disruption, higher levels of insomnia, increased fatigue impact, lower alertness levels, and heightened symptoms of depression associated with more nocturnal sleep time after diurnal work. Our findings indicate that health and safety vary depending on the type of schedule employed.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00011-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Insomnia and its treatments—trend analysis and publication profile of randomized clinical trials 失眠症及其治疗方法--随机临床试验的趋势分析和出版概况

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00014-0

Viviane Akemi Kakazu, Marcia Assis, Andrea Bacelar, Andréia Gomes Bezerra, Giovanna Lira Rosa Ciutti, Silvia Gonçalves Conway, José Carlos Fernandes Galduróz, Luciano F. Drager, Mariana Pery Khoury, Ingrid Porto Araújo Leite, Ygor de Matos Luciano, Dalva Poyares, Sergio Tufik, Gabriel Natan Pires

{"title":"Insomnia and its treatments—trend analysis and publication profile of randomized clinical trials","authors":"Viviane Akemi Kakazu, Marcia Assis, Andrea Bacelar, Andréia Gomes Bezerra, Giovanna Lira Rosa Ciutti, Silvia Gonçalves Conway, José Carlos Fernandes Galduróz, Luciano F. Drager, Mariana Pery Khoury, Ingrid Porto Araújo Leite, Ygor de Matos Luciano, Dalva Poyares, Sergio Tufik, Gabriel Natan Pires","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00014-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00014-0","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to describe the publication profile of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for insomnia. A systematic review of RCTs regarding interventions for non-comorbid insomnia in adults retrieved 132 RCTs: 58 related to pharmacological treatments, 71 to non-pharmacological treatments, and 3 to both interventions. The treatments with the biggest publication profile were digital CBT-I (dCBT-I) (n = 35), in-person CBT-I (n = 28) and zolpidem (n = 22). Regarding dCBT-I, the median publication year is 2019, with 1.13 ± 1.91 RCTs published per year. Regarding zolpidem, the median publication year is 2008, with 0.71 ± 0.97 RCTs per year. Regarding in-person CBT-I, the median publication year is 2018, with 0.90 ± 1.14 RCTs per year. The majority of the available RCTs are on non-pharmacological interventions, particularly CBT-I (mostly in the 2000s) and dCBT-I (mostly in the last decade), although presenting a reduced methodological quality in comparison to pharmacological interventions. These data suggest an increasing focus on non-pharmacological interventions for insomnia.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00014-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Melatonin’s role in the timing of sleep onset is conserved in nocturnal mice 褪黑激素在夜行性小鼠睡眠开始时间中的作用是一致的

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00013-1

Pureum Kim, Nicholas Garner, Annaleis Tatkovic, Rex Parsons, Prasad Chunduri, Jana Vukovic, Michael Piper, Martina Pfeffer, Marco Weiergräber, Henrik Oster, Oliver Rawashdeh

{"title":"Melatonin’s role in the timing of sleep onset is conserved in nocturnal mice","authors":"Pureum Kim, Nicholas Garner, Annaleis Tatkovic, Rex Parsons, Prasad Chunduri, Jana Vukovic, Michael Piper, Martina Pfeffer, Marco Weiergräber, Henrik Oster, Oliver Rawashdeh","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00013-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00013-1","url":null,"abstract":"Melatonin supplementation strengthens non‐restorative sleep rhythms and its temporal alignment in both humans and night-active rodents. Of note, although the sleep cycle is reversed in day-active and night-active (nocturnal) mammals, both, produce melatonin at night under the control of the circadian clock. The effects of exogenous melatonin on sleep and sleepiness are relatively clear, but its endogenous role in sleep, particularly, in timing sleep onset (SO), remains poorly understood. We show in nocturnal mice that the increases in mid-nighttime sleep episodes, and the mid-nighttime decline in activity, are coupled to nighttime melatonin signaling. Furthermore, we show that endogenous melatonin modulates SO by reducing the threshold for wake-to-sleep transitioning. Such link between melatonin and SO timing may explain phenomena such as increased sleep propensity in circadian rhythm sleep disorders and chronic insomnia in patients with severely reduced nocturnal melatonin levels. Our findings demonstrate that melatonin’s role in sleep is evolutionarily conserved, effectively challenging the argument that melatonin cannot play a major role in sleep regulation in nocturnal mammals, where the main activity phase coincides with high melatonin levels.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00013-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How stepping out helped us tune in: finding space and time to think as an early career researcher 走出如何帮助我们调整：作为一名早期职业研究人员，寻找思考的空间和时间

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00010-4

Manuel Spitschan, Laura Kervezee, Renske Lok, Elise McGlashan, Raymond P. Najjar

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AAV8-P301L tau expression confers age-related disruptions in sleep quantity and timing AAV8-P301L tau表达会导致与年龄有关的睡眠数量和时间紊乱

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00009-x

Bryan R. Alava, Andrew R. Morris, Andrew C. Liu, Jose F. Abisambra, Karyn A. Esser

{"title":"AAV8-P301L tau expression confers age-related disruptions in sleep quantity and timing","authors":"Bryan R. Alava, Andrew R. Morris, Andrew C. Liu, Jose F. Abisambra, Karyn A. Esser","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00009-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00009-x","url":null,"abstract":"Sleep timing and quantity disturbances persist in tauopathy patients. This has been studied in transgenic models of primary tau neuropathology using traditional electroencephalograms (EEGs) and more recently, the PiezoSleep Mouse Behavioral Tracking System. Here, we generated a primary tauopathy model using an intracerebroventricular injection of human mutant hSyn-P301L-tau, using adeno-associated virus of serotype 8 (AAV8). We discovered distinctions in sleep architecture with altered quantity and timing in AAV8-P301L tau expressing mice of both sexes using the noninvasive PiezoSleep System. The AAV8-P301L tau mice exhibit striking age-related increases in sleep duration specifically at the active phase onset, suggesting a critical and sensitive time-of-day for tauopathy related sleep disturbances to occur. Since our findings show sleep behavior changes at specific transitional periods of the day, tau neuropathology may impact normal diurnal variation in biological processes, which should be explored using the AAV8-P301L tauopathy model.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00009-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142360083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prior-night sleep predicts next-day symptoms over ten days among military personnel with sleep problems 前一晚的睡眠可预测有睡眠问题的军人在十天内第二天出现的症状

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00008-y

Emerson M. Wickwire, Jacob Collen, Vincent F. Capaldi II, Zhiwei Zhao, Scott G. Williams, Connie L. Thomas, Samson Z. Assefa, Jennifer S. Albrecht, Shuo Chen

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Chronobiotic and cytoprotective activity of melatonin in the cardiovascular system. Doses matter 褪黑素在心血管系统中的慢性生物和细胞保护活性。剂量问题

npj Biological Timing and Sleep Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1038/s44323-024-00007-z

Daniel P. Cardinali, Daniel E. Vigo

{"title":"Chronobiotic and cytoprotective activity of melatonin in the cardiovascular system. Doses matter","authors":"Daniel P. Cardinali, Daniel E. Vigo","doi":"10.1038/s44323-024-00007-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44323-024-00007-z","url":null,"abstract":"A circadian disruption, manifested by disturbed sleep and low-grade inflammation, is commonly seen in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The decline in plasma melatonin, which is a conserved phylogenetic molecule across all known aerobic creatures, is also a common feature in CVDs. The daily evening pineal melatonin surge synchronizes both the central pacemaker located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei and myriads of cellular clocks in the periphery (“chronobiotic effect”). Melatonin also has cytoprotective properties, acting primarily not only as an antioxidant by buffering free radicals but also by regulating inflammation. In CVDs, exogenous melatonin administration decreases nocturnal hypertension, improves systolic and diastolic blood pressure, reduces the pulsatility index in the internal carotid artery, decreases platelet aggregation, and reduces serum catecholamine levels. Melatonin evokes an increase in parasympathetic activity in the heart. Allometric calculations based on animal research show that melatonin’s cytoprotective benefits in CVDs may require high doses to be fully manifested (in the 100–200 mg/day range). If melatonin is expected to improve health in CVDs, the low doses currently used in clinical trials (i.e., 2–10 mg) are presumably insufficient.","PeriodicalId":501704,"journal":{"name":"npj Biological Timing and Sleep","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-024-00007-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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