Journal
CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 150-154Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.07.011
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Diverse mammalian ultradian rhythms (URs) with periods in the 1-6 h range, are omnipresent at multiple levels of biological organization and of functional and adaptive significance. Specification of neuroendocrine substrates that generate URs remains elusive. The suprachiasmatic (SCN) and arcuate (ARC) nuclei of the rodent hypothalamus subserve several behavioral URs. Recently, in a major advance, dopaminergic signaling in striatal circuitry, likely at D2 receptors, has been implicated in behavioral and thermoregulatory URs of mice. We propose a neural network in which reciprocal communication among the SCN, the ARC and striatel dopaminergic circuitry modulates the period and waveform of behavioral and physiological URs.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available