Figure 4.
Phase-response curve and period-response curve for medium exchange of circadian Bmal1 and Per2 rhythms in the neonatal SCN (a) Phase-responses in individual slices (n = 22) of circadian Bmal1 (green circle) and Per2 (red circle) rhythms in the neonatal SCN (upper). The abscissa indicates the circadian phase in CT, where CT1 is the peak phase of Bmal1 rhythm and the ordinate indicates phase-shifts in hours with a positive sign for phase-advance shifts and with a negative for phase-delay. Mean phase-shifts with SD at CT0–CT6 (n = 5), CT6–CT12 (n = 9), CT12–CT18 (n = 4) and CT18–CT20 (n = 5) (lower). A significant phase-shift is indicated with asterisk (*) and a significant difference between the phase-shifts of two circadian rhythms is shown with dagger (†). **p < 0.01 (one-way repeated measure ANOVA), ‡p < 0.01 (two-way repeated measure ANOVA with post hoc Tukey-Kramer test). (b) Period-responses obtained from the same experiment as (a). Period-responses in individual slices of circadian Bmal1 (green circle) and Per2 (red circle) (upper), and the mean responses with SD at the 4 circadian phases (lower).