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Physiological significance of a peripheral tissue circadian clock

2008· article· en· 1,036 citations· W2108235045 on OpenAlex· 10.1073/pnas.0806717105

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Teacher disagreement score
0.134
Threshold uncertainty score
0.875
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Opus teacher head0.081
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread
0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Mammals have circadian clocks in peripheral tissues, but there is no direct evidence of their physiological importance. Unlike the suprachiasmatic nucleus clock that is set by light and drives rest-activity and fasting-feeding cycles, peripheral clocks are set by daily feeding, suggesting that at least some contribute metabolic regulation. The liver plays a well known role in glucose homeostasis, and we report here that mice with a liver-specific deletion of Bmal1, an essential clock component, exhibited hypoglycemia restricted to the fasting phase of the daily feeding cycle, exaggerated glucose clearance, and loss of rhythmic expression of hepatic glucose regulatory genes. We conclude that the liver clock is important for buffering circulating glucose in a time-of-day-dependent manner. Our findings suggest that the liver clock contributes to homeostasis by driving a daily rhythm of hepatic glucose export that counterbalances the daily cycle of glucose ingestion resulting from the fasting-feeding cycle.

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The record

Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Topic
Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Field
Neuroscience
Canadian institutions
McGill UniversityDouglas Mental Health University Institute
Funders
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNational Institutes of HealthUniversité de LausanneUniversité de GenèveLife Sciences Research FoundationUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Keywords
Circadian rhythmBiologyEndocrinologyGlucose homeostasisInternal medicineSuprachiasmatic nucleusCircadian clockHomeostasisCLOCKIngestionHypoglycemiaCarbohydrate metabolismDiabetes mellitusMedicineInsulin resistance
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yes