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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 265: R1216-R1222, 1993;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 5 1216-R1222, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Do the suprachiasmatic nuclei oscillate in old rats as they do in young ones?

E. Satinoff, H. Li, T. K. Tcheng, C. Liu, A. J. McArthur, M. Medanic and M. U. Gillette
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61820.

The basis of the decline in circadian rhythms with aging was addressed by comparing the patterns of three behavioral rhythms in young and old rats with the in vitro rhythm of neuronal activity in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the primary circadian pacemaker. In some old rats, rhythms of body temperature, drinking, and activity retained significant 24-h periodicities in entraining light-dark cycles; in others, one or two of the rhythms became aperiodic. When these rats were 23-27.5 mo old they were killed, and single-unit firing rates in SCN brain slices were recorded continuously for 30 h. There was significant damping of mean peak neuronal firing rates in old rats compared with young. SCN neuronal activities were analyzed with reference to previous entrained behavioral rhythm patterns of individual rats as well. Neuronal activity from rats with prior aperiodic behavioral rhythms was erratic, as expected. Neuronal activity from rats that were still maintaining significant 24-h behavioral rhythmicity at the time they were killed was erratic in most cases but normally rhythmic in others. Thus there was no more congruence between the behavioral rhythms and the brain slice rhythms than there was among the behavioral rhythms alone. These results, the first to demonstrate aberrant SCN firing patterns and a decrease in amplitude in old rats, imply that aging could either disrupt coupling between SCN pacemaker cells or their output, or cause deterioration of the pacemaking properties of SCN cells.


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