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Problems of Re-entrainment of Circadian Rhythms: Asymmetry Effect, Dissociation and Partition

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Environmental Endocrinology

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Abstract

Entrained circadian rhythms maintain a more or less distinct phase-angle difference with respect to the Zeitgeber (ASCHOFF, 1965). After a sudden shift of the Zeitgeber, several periods are required to reestablish this phase relationship. Usually, the circadian system follows advance shifts of the Zeitgeber by advances, and delay shifts by delays. However, with 12-hour shifts of the Zeitgeber (= 180° shift), the circadian system may go through advance shifts despite the 50% lengthening of one Zeitgeber period. Further, within an organism, some rhythms may follow the Zeitgeber, while others move into the opposite direction: re-entrainment by “partition”. There is, finally, the phenomenon of “asymmetry”, in which the time necessary for re-entrainment differs between advance and delay shifts.

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  1. University of Montpellier, France

    Ivan Assenmacher MD, DSc (Professor of Physiology) (Professor of Physiology)

  2. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Donald S. Farner PhD, DSc (Professor of Zoology) (Professor of Zoology)

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Aschoff, J. (1978). Problems of Re-entrainment of Circadian Rhythms: Asymmetry Effect, Dissociation and Partition. In: Assenmacher, I., Farner, D.S. (eds) Environmental Endocrinology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66981-1_30

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