RGD Reference Report - Clock genes outside the suprachiasmatic nucleus involved in manifestation of locomotor activity rhythm in rats. - Rat Genome Database

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Clock genes outside the suprachiasmatic nucleus involved in manifestation of locomotor activity rhythm in rats.

Authors: Masubuchi, S  Honma, S  Abe, H  Ishizaki, K  Namihira, M  Ikeda, M  Honma, K 
Citation: Masubuchi S, etal., Eur J Neurosci 2000 Dec;12(12):4206-14.
RGD ID: 1299576
Pubmed: PMID:11122332   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Chronic treatment of methamphetamine (MAP) in rats desynchronized the locomotor activity rhythm from the light-dark cycle. When the activity rhythm was completely phase-reversed with respect to a light dark-cycle, 24 h profiles were examined for the clock gene (rPer1, rPer2, rBMAL1, rClock) expressions in several brain structures by in situ hybridization, and for the pineal as well as plasma melatonin levels. In the MAP-treated rats, the rPer1 expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) showed a robust circadian rhythm which was essentially identical to that in the control rats. Circadian rhythms in pineal as well as plasma melatonin were not changed significantly in the MAP-treated rats. However, robust circadian rhythms in the rPer1, rPer2 and rBMAL1 expressions detected in the caudate-putamen (CPU) and parietal cortex were completely phase-reversed in the MAP-treated rats, compared with those in the control rats, indicating desynchronization from the SCN rhythm. Such desynchronization was not observed in the circadian rhythms of clock gene expression in the nucleus accumbens and cingulate cortex. The circadian rClock expression rhythm in the MAP-treated rats was not phase-reversed in the CPU and parietal cortex. These findings indicate that the locomotor activity rhythm in rats is directly driven by the pacemaker outside the SCN, in which rPer1, rPer2 and rBMAL1 in the CPU and parietal cortex are involved.

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Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
circadian rhythm  IMP 1299576 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Per1  (period circadian regulator 1)


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