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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 263, Issue 2 353-R362, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society
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N. F. Ruby and I. Zucker
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Siberian hamsters express torpor spontaneously after several weeks of exposure to short days. In long days, torpor is expressed only when food intake is restricted. Hamsters maintained in a long photoperiod (16 h light/day) at 15 degrees C expressed daily torpor during food restriction both before and after bilateral ablation of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Hamsters housed in short days (8 h light/day, ambient temperature 15 degrees C) and fed ad libitum displayed torpor before, but not after, ablation of the SCN (SCNX). Torpor was reinstated in all short-day SCNX hamsters during postoperative food restriction and persisted in several animals even after ad libitum feeding was reinstated. Torpor was entrained to the light-dark cycle in both long- and short-day hamsters preoperatively but appeared to occur in a temporally random fashion in SCNX animals. SCNX hamsters, unlike control animals, displayed multiple torpor bouts per 24 h. The SCN is not essential for the expression of torpor but plays a crucial role in its temporal organization.
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