In rats fed only in diurnal hours, the daily pattern of the body's own VIP-like immunoreactivity in the suprachiasmatic nucleus was perturbed and its minimum advanced by 4 h.
In plain wordsIn rats fed only by day, the body's own VIP rhythm in a brain clock area was disturbed and its low came 4 hours earlier.
- Outcome
- Not applicableDaily VIP-like immunoreactivity pattern in suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Rats on restricted-schedule diurnal feeding- Outcome group
- Circadian rhythm · Nervous system and cognition
Source sentences
In these conditions which inverse the paradoxical sleep rhythm, the VIP-LI pattern is perturbed and its minimum advanced by 4 h in the SCN.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In order to determine whether these variations are linked to the light-dark cycle or are a consequence of sleep-wake rhythm expression, we dissociated these two parameters by restricting feeding to diurnal hours.
This result measures the body's own Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP, aviptadil). Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.