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Circadian entrainment to light-dark cycles involves extracellular nitric oxide communication within the suprachiasmatic nuclei
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2010-03Registro en:
Plano, Santiago Andrés; Golombek, Diego Andrés; Chiesa, Juan José; Circadian entrainment to light-dark cycles involves extracellular nitric oxide communication within the suprachiasmatic nuclei; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; European Journal Of Neuroscience; 31; 5; 3-2010; 876-882
0953-816X
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Plano, Santiago Andrés
Golombek, Diego Andrés
Chiesa, Juan José
Resumen
The ability to synchronize to light-dark (LD) cycles is an essential property of the circadian clock, located in mammals within the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). Single light pulses activate nitric oxide (NO) intracellular signaling, leading to circadian phase-shifts required for synchronization. In addition, extracellular NO has a role in the SCN paracrine communication of photic phase advances. In this work, the extracellular nitrergic transmission was assessed in steady-state synchronization to LD cycles of locomotor rhythms in the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Extracellular NO levels were pharmacologically decreased in vivo with the specific scavenger, 2-phenyl-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl 3-oxide (PTIO). Hamsters were subjected to LD cycles different from normal 24 h (LD 14 : 10) cycles (i.e. T-cycles), with a single 30-min light pulse presented either every 23 h (T23 cycles), or every 25 h (T25 cycles), thus allowing synchronization by advances or delays, respectively. Acute PTIO intracerebroventricular microinjections, delivered 30 min previous to the light pulse, inhibited synchronization by phase advances to T23 cycles, but did not alter phase delays under T25 cycles. In addition, NO scavenging inhibited light-induced expression of PERIOD1 protein at circadian time 18 (i.e. the time for light-induced phase advances). These findings demonstrate the role of extracellular NO communication within the SCN in the steady-state synchronization to LD cycles.