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. 2019 Jul 8;15(7):e8838. doi: 10.15252/msb.20198838

Figure 3. Inter‐ and intraspecies variability in photosensitivity causes variation in the effect of PF‐670.

Figure 3

  1. The stronger attenuating effect of light in diurnal NHPs than in nocturnal rodents leads to the interspecies variation observed in the response to PF‐670.
  2. The simulated PRCs of diurnal NHPs have a higher ratio of maximal magnitudes between advance and delay zones (A/D = 1.25) than that of the experimentally measured nocturnal mouse PRC (A/D = 0.41), which is adopted from (Comas et al, 2006). Here, the red line and red range represent the mean ± SD of the simulated 12‐h light PRCs of the NHP model with different gating and adaptation (Fig 2Aii).
  3. Similarly, the light PRC of diurnal humans has a higher A/D ratio (St Hilaire et al, 2012; Ruger et al, 2013) than that of nocturnal mice (Comas et al, 2006).
  4. The effect of PF‐670 can be heterogeneous due to interindividual variability in photosensitivity.
  5. Model N with a narrow high photosensitivity zone (inset) simulates a smaller magnitude of the advance zone of 12‐h light PRC than model W with a wide high photosensitivity zone.
  6. Thus, model N simulates a larger constant stable phase delay than model W when a single daily 25 mpk dose is given at ZT8 under LD 12:12.