New answers tagged circadian-rhythms
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The moon doesn't have a direct effect on metabolism. Nor does it affect menstruation (an archaic theory existed which claimed so!!). The lunar effects are due to its gravitational field which is known to affect tides (Spring tides and neap tides).
Even on a daily basis if you might have observed the sea advances into the beach in the night and recedes in ...
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Wikipedia gives a very good explanation of this, on the page for the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
For example, in the fruitfly Drosophila, the cellular circadian rhythm
in neurons is controlled by two interlocked feedback loops.
In the first loop, the bHLH transcription factors clock (CLK) and
cycle (CYC) drive the transcription of their own ...
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There isn't a central/master website that I'm aware of, as it's still an area of active research. I did a bit of work in the field about 10 years ago, and at that point we were still working out the circadian rhythms in the yeast mating cycle.
Since then, the field been enumerating more and more involved processes: mRNA expression, mRNA degradation, micro ...
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The question piqued my interest, but after hunting through the literature for a bit, I hadn't found any direct answers. Then I went back and read the mouse study you cited a bit more carefully. The mouse study only made a reference to mice being affected at 4 lux, ~100x more sensitive than humans. However, for that number it cited a paper in Science that ...
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