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Phase Analysis of Ultradian Rhythms of Body Temperature in Laboratory Mice Maintained under Constant Illumination at
M E Diatroptov1, S M Slesarev2, T A Zenchenko3
1A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. diatrom@inbox.ru.
Abstract:
The study examined the rhythmic oscillations of body temperature with the period ranging 100-400 min in three groups of laboratory mice maintained under persistent artificial illumination in Moscow and Ulyanovsk. The difference in the moments of sunrise or sunset in these towns is about 1 h. The greatest rhythmic oscillations of body temperature in examined mice had the periods of 100-400 min. The phase analysis of 100-200-min rhythms revealed their synchronicity with local but not universal time despite the mice had no photic signs indicating alternation of day and night. Of them, the most pronounced were the rhythms with the periods of 121, 143, 151, and 186 min. The present data suggest existence of an external environmental synchronizer of body temperature ultradian rhythms related to local solar time.
