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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 264: R708-R715, 1993;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 4 708-R715, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Restricted food access and light-dark: impact of conflicting zeitgebers on circadian rhythms of the rabbit

B. Jilge and H. Stahle
University of Ulm, Laboratory Animals Research Unit, Germany.

Free-running circadian rhythms of rabbits were exposed to a 11:55-11:55-h light-dark (LD) schedule. After complete entrainment (63 +/- 22 days), the predominantly nocturnally active rabbits were exposed to an additional zeitgeber, restricted food access (RF), which was imposed during the light period. In five animals RF had the same period (T) as the LD cycle (23:50 h), and in five other animals TRF was 24:10 h. At a period of 23:50 h for both zeitgebers, the rhythms of four animals were stably entrained to RF, while in one animal a component of the rhythm broke away from RF and entrained to the LD zeitgeber. In animals exposed to zeitgebers of different periods most of the activity rhythm also entrained to RF, but 20 +/- 7% of the activity entrained to the LD zeitgeber. The light-entrained activity component merged with the RF component when the zeitgebers crossed, and decomposition occurred when the phase difference exceeded 4-6 h. The results indicate that two circadian oscillator systems exist in the rabbit, one entrained by light-dark cycles and the other by feeding-fasting cycles. Both exert common control over a number of overt behavioral rhythms.


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