Sentences with phrase «regulates daily rhythms»

Although there's been some debate about this phenomenon, researchers say it's possible we have a built - in «lunar clock» that regulates our daily rhythms, similar to our circadian clock.

Produced at night, it regulates daily rhythms, and also annual rhythms such as seasonal changes in reproduction and energy balance.

Not exact matches

Your biological clock is regulated by two broad factors: first, the central rhythm is reset daily by light, as sensory input from the eyes is processed by a small part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

The finding, described in two papers in today's issue of Cell, suggests that this clock, which regulates the body's daily biochemical rhythms, shares some basic cogs with the timekeepers of fruit flies, and even bread molds.

The internal body clocks, called circadian clocks, regulate the daily «rhythms» of many bodily functions, from waking and sleeping to body temperature and hunger.

«These new results from Dr. Liu and his colleagues also extend beyond understanding the function of an anti-sense RNA in the fine tuning of a cell's daily rhythm; they provide an example of the means by which anti-sense transcription likely regulates other key molecular and physiological processes in cells and organisms.»

He asked Moore, a circadian rhythm expert, to look at the spiders» internal clocks that regulate their daily activities.

«Possible mechanisms to regulate the coherence of the oscillation, as a living organism would have evolved to develop a robust circadian rhythm, or daily biological clock, can also be revealed from the theoretical analyses,» Lin said.

Researchers have found a new group of cells in the retina that directly affect the biological clock by sending signals to a region of the brain which regulates our daily (circadian) rhythms.