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RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.
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Calcium Circadian Rhythmicity in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Cell Autonomy and Network Modulation.

ENeuro 2017 July
Circadian rhythms of mammalian physiology and behavior are coordinated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus. Within SCN neurons, various aspects of cell physiology exhibit circadian oscillations, including circadian clock gene expression, levels of intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+ ]i ), and neuronal firing rate. [Ca2+ ]i oscillates in SCN neurons even in the absence of neuronal firing. To determine the causal relationship between circadian clock gene expression and [Ca2+ ]i rhythms in the SCN, as well as the SCN neuronal network dependence of [Ca2+ ]i rhythms, we introduced GCaMP3, a genetically encoded fluorescent Ca2+ indicator, into SCN neurons from PER2::LUC knock-in reporter mice. Then, PER2 and [Ca2+ ]i were imaged in SCN dispersed and organotypic slice cultures. In dispersed cells, PER2 and [Ca2+ ]i both exhibited cell autonomous circadian rhythms, but [Ca2+ ]i rhythms were typically weaker than PER2 rhythms. This result matches the predictions of a detailed mathematical model in which clock gene rhythms drive [Ca2+ ]i rhythms. As predicted by the model, PER2 and [Ca2+ ]i rhythms were both stronger in SCN slices than in dispersed cells and were weakened by blocking neuronal firing in slices but not in dispersed cells. The phase relationship between [Ca2+ ]i and PER2 rhythms was more variable in cells within slices than in dispersed cells. Both PER2 and [Ca2+ ]i rhythms were abolished in SCN cells deficient in the essential clock gene Bmal1 . These results suggest that the circadian rhythm of [Ca2+ ]i in SCN neurons is cell autonomous and dependent on clock gene rhythms, but reinforced and modulated by a synchronized SCN neuronal network.

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