Sentences with phrase «circadian clock neurons»

But showing that circadian clock neurons in fruit flies use external temperature to trigger sleep suggests that some clock neurons in humans could be similarly sensitive.

Using the fruit flies, they showed how circadian clock neurons use thermoreceptors to constantly monitor the temperature of their environment.

Not exact matches

Humans and fruit flies may have not shared a common ancestor for hundreds of millions of years, but the neurons that govern our circadian clocks are strikingly similar.

«It was known that ageing interferes with oscillations in the electrical activity of neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus — the brain region responsible for regulating the circadian clock — making these oscillations lose amplitude, and it was assumed that other tissues would also lose their rhythms,» explains Guiomar.

«The light runs through the hypothalamus through a set of neurons called the suprachiasmatic neurons (SCN); they are the clock that regulates your circadian rhythm.»