Disturbance of the circadian system in shift work and its health impact

DB Boivin, P Boudreau… - Journal of biological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The various non-standard schedules required of shift workers force abrupt changes in the
timing of sleep and light-dark exposure. These changes result in disturbances of the …

Physiology of circadian entrainment

DA Golombek, RE Rosenstein - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Mammalian circadian rhythms are controlled by endogenous biological oscillators, including
a master clock located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). Since the period …

Circadian rhythms and the molecular clock in cardiovascular biology and disease

S Crnko, BC Du Pré, JPG Sluijter… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The Earth turns on its axis every 24 h; almost all life on the planet has a mechanism—
circadian rhythmicity—to anticipate the daily changes caused by this rotation. The molecular …

COVID-19-mandated social restrictions unveil the impact of social time pressure on sleep and body clock

M Korman, V Tkachev, C Reis, Y Komada… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In humans, sleep regulation is tightly linked to social times that assign local time to events,
such as school, work, or meals. The impact of these social times, collectively—social time …

Interconnections between circadian clocks and metabolism

D Guan, MA Lazar - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Circadian rhythms evolved through adaptation to daily light/dark changes in the
environment; they are believed to be regulated by the core circadian clock interlocking …

New insights into the circadian rhythm and its related diseases

Y **e, Q Tang, G Chen, M **e, S Yu, J Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Circadian rhythms (CR) are a series of endogenous autonomous oscillators generated by
the molecular circadian clock which acting on coordinating internal time with the external …

Melatonin as a chronobiotic

J Arendt, DJ Skene - Sleep medicine reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Melatonin, hormone of the pineal gland, is concerned with biological timing. It is secreted at
night in all species and in ourselves is thereby associated with sleep, lowered core body …

Determinants of the diurnal course of salivary alpha-amylase

UM Nater, N Rohleder, W Schlotz, U Ehlert… - …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Previous data from our group and others have shown that salivary alpha-
amylase activity increases in response to stress. It has been suggested that salivary alpha …

Determinants of salivary α-amylase in humans and methodological considerations

N Rohleder, UM Nater - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2009 - Elsevier
Salivary α-amylase (sAA) has been proposed as a marker for activity of the sympathetic
nervous system (SNS). Recent studies in support of this hypothesis have led to an increased …

Interoceptive dysfunction: toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

C Harshaw - Psychological bulletin, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other nonspecific
somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close …