Signalling entrains the peripheral circadian clock.

In mammals, 24-h rhythms of behaviour and physiology are regulated by the circadian clock. The circadian clock is controlled by a central clock in the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) that synchronizes peripheral clocks in peripheral tissues. Clock genes in the SCN are primarily entrained by light. Increasing evidence has shown that peripheral clocks are also regulated by light and hormones independent of the SCN. How the peripheral clocks deal with internal signals is dependent on the relevance of a specific cue to a specific tissue. In different tissues, most genes that are under circadian control are not overlapping, revealing the tissue-specific control of peripheral clocks. We will discuss how different signals control the peripheral clocks in different peripheral tissues, such as the liver, gastrointestinal tract, and pancreas, and discuss the organ-to-organ communication between the peripheral clocks at the molecular level. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Shan Zhang, Miao Dai, Xu Wang, Shu-Heng Jiang, Li-Peng Hu, Xue-Li Zhang, Zhi-Gang Zhang. Signalling entrains the peripheral circadian clock. Cellular signalling. 2020 May;69:109433

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