In this thesis Drosophila was used as a model to study the effect of ageing on circadian and sleep behaviour. Circadian behaviour was measured using the Drosophila Activity Monitoring system, recording activity of flies at various stages of the ageing process, demonstrating a linear decline in rhythm strength with age combined with an increase in period length.
These molecular oscillators comprise several interlocked feedback loops at the gene expression level. In plants, the circadian clock was recently shown to be organ specific. The root clock seemed to involve only a morning loop whereas the shoot clock also includes an evening loop in a more complex structure.The circadian clock is tightly tied to the light environment. Transcriptional feedback loops are able to generate a self-sustaining rhythm of approximately 24 hours which impinges on almost every aspect of physiology in higher organisms.Secondly, melatonin mutants show a reduction in sleep in animals with no functional behavioral rhythms suggesting that melatonin does not require intact circadian rhythms for its effect on sleep. Thirdly, melatonin mutants do not exhibit any changes in circadian rhythms, suggesting that the circadian clock does not require melatonin for its function.
Circadian clocks involve feedback loops that generate rhythmic expression of key genes. Molecular genetic studies in the higher plant Arabidopsis theliene have revealed a complex clock network. We begin by modelling the first part of the Arabidopsis clock network to be identified, a transcriptional feedback loop comprising TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1 (TOCl), LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY) and.
A working internal circadian clock allows a healthy organism to keep time in order to anticipate transitions between night and day, allowing the temporal optimisation and control of internal processes. The internal circadian clock is regulated by a set of core genes that form a tightly coupled oscillator system.. PhD thesis, University of.
The Circadian Clock and The Cell Cycle Catherine Ann Cox Thesis for PhD.. The circadian clock is an endogenous time-keeping mechanism that allows an. This thesis set out to further dissect the link between these two important systems.
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PhD project title: Network interactions shape the circadian clock in Drosophila melanogaster. University of Registration: University of Leicester. Project outline: The circadian clock is an endogenous mechanism that synchronizes almost all behaviour and physiology with the Earth’s 24 hour environmental cycles. Predictably, the circadian clock.
E-box dependent activation of this distal region and the proximal promoter by clock and hypoxic factors suggests the E-box provides the molecular interface between circadian and stress pathways and that Pai-1 is a key integrator of the circadian clockwork and diverse physiological processes in the CVS.
Rhythmic data are ubiquitous in the life sciences, with biologists needing reliable statistical tools for the analysis of such data. When these signals display rhythmic yet nonstationary behaviour, common in many biological systems, the established methodologies are often misleading. Chapter 2 develops and tests a new method for clustering nonstationary rhythmic biological data.
Kusakina, Jelena (2010) Role of CCA1 and LHY in the temperature compensation mechanism of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool. Zhang, Yi (2010) Continuous-time Markhov decision processes: theory, approximations and applications.
In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the circadian clock is believed to be composed of a number of coupled transcriptional negative feedback loops. The LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY) gene is thought to form part of at least two of these transcriptional feedback loops, as well as playing a role in the perception of light signals by the clock.
The biological clock relies on the integration of both photic and non-photic information in order to synchronize and entrain to the environment. In this thesis I examine the interaction between light and NPY, a known mediator of many non-photic stimuli. Previous studies have shown that both photic and non-photic stimuli interact in vivo and in vitro.
In mammals, the circadian clock coordinates multiple behavioural and physical processes, including energy homeostasis. At the centre of these rhythms lies the circadian clock machinery, a precisely coordinated transcription-translation feedback system required to maintain the correct time.
PhD Project - The tick tock of the redox clock: shedding new light on the role of the lens in regulating circadian rhythms at University of Auckland, listed on FindAPhD.com.
Circadian data are typically analysed using the Fast Fourier Transform Non- Linear Least Squared method. The purpose of my project was to develop a new approach and to apply this to the analysis of rhythms for Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping over a time domain. This was achieved by examining the rhythms as functional data. The data used for this process came from what is known as the.
ATTENUATION OF CIRCADIAN DYSFUNCTION IMPROVES SLEEP, MOOD AND NEUROPSYCHOMETRIC PERFORMANCE Shadab Ataur Rahman, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Graduate Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ABSTRACT Mood and cognition, along with numerous other physiological processes, are under circadian regulation.