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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Morningness-eveningness and circadian rhythms of HPA- and SNS-mediated variables /

Bailey, Sandra Lynn. January 1998 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [84]-95).
2

Antidepressant drugs and circadian rhythms of neuronal uptake of L-Tryptophan

Loizou, G. D. January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
3

The light mutant oscillator (LMO); a novel circadian oscillator in Neurospora crassa

Huang, He 15 May 2009 (has links)
Circadian clocks are present in most eukaryotes and some prokaryotes and control rhythms in behavior, physiology and gene expression. One well-characterized circadian clock is that of Neurospora crassa. In addition to the well-described N. crassa FRQ/WCC oscillator, several lines of evidence have implied the presence of other oscillators which may have important functions in the N. crassa circadian clock system. However, the molecular details are only known for the core FRQ/WCC oscillator. The light mutant oscillator (LMO) was identified by two mutations (LM-1 and LM-2) and shown to control developmental rhythms in constant light (LL), conditions in which the FRQ/WCC oscillator is not functional. The objective of this project was to determine whether the developmental rhythms driven by the LMO are circadian, whether the components of the LMO communicate with components of the FRQ/WCC oscillator, and to begin to define the molecular nature of the LMO. First, the conditions for growth of the LM-1 mutant strain that reveals the best circadian rhythm of development in LL were found. Second, the LMO was determined to display the three properties required of a circadian oscillator. Third, the LMO was shown to function independently of the FRQ/WCC oscillator to control developmental rhythms in LL. However, evidence suggests that the FRQ/WCC oscillator and the LMO communicate with each other. Finally, using Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence (CAPS) markers, the LM-1 mutation was genetically mapped to the right arm of linkage group I within a 1069 kb region. Together, these results provide a start towards understanding of the complexity of oscillators that form a circadian clock in organisms.
4

Estimation of circadian parameters and investigation in cyanobacteria via semiparametric varying coefficient periodic models

Liu, Yingxue 15 May 2009 (has links)
This dissertation includes three components. Component 1 provides an estima- tion procedure for circadian parameters in cyanobacteria. Component 2 explores the relationship between baseline and amplitude by model selection under the framework of smoothing spline. Component 3 investigates properties of hypothesis testing. The following three paragraphs briefly summarize these three components, respectively. Varying coefficient models are frequently used in statistical modeling. We pro- pose a semiparametric varying coefficient periodic model which is suitable to study periodic patterns. This model has ample applications in the study of the cyanobac- teria circadian clock. To achieve the desired flexibility, the model we consider may not be globally identifiable. We propose to perform local approximations by kernel based methods and focus on estimating one solution that is biologically meaningful. Asymptotic properties are developed. Simulations show that the gain by our proce- dure over the commonly used method is substantial. The methodology is illustrated by an application to a cyanobacteria dataset. Smoothing spline can be implemented, but a direct application with the penalty selected by the generalized cross-validation often leads to non-convergence outcomes. We propose an adjusted cross-validation instead, which resolves the difficulties. Biol- ogists believe that the amplitude function of the periodic component is proportional to the baseline function. To verify this belief, we propose a full model without any assumptions regarding such a relationship, and two reduced models with the ratio of baseline and amplitude to be a constant and a quadratic function of time, respectively. We use model selection techniques, Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Schwarz Bayesian information criterion (BIC), to determine the optimal model. Simulations show that AIC and BIC select the correct model with high probabilities. Application to cyanobacteria data shows that the full model is the best model. To investigate the same problem in component 2 by a formal hypothesis testing procedure, we develop kernel based methods. In order to construct the test statistic, we derive the global degree of freedom for the residual sum of squares. Simulations show that the proposed tests perform well. We apply the proposed procedures to the data and conclude that the baseline and amplitude functions share no linear or quadratic relationship.
5

Manipulation of the human circadian system with bright light and melatonin

Deacon, Stephen John January 1994 (has links)
No description available.
6

Circadian rhythm dysfunction in the suprachiasmatic nucleus : effects of Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection and inflammatory cytokines /

Lundkvist, Gabriella B., January 1900 (has links)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.
7

Analysis of rhythmic gene transcription using the timeR a novel technology to capture zebrafish embryos /

Pierce, Lain Xylia. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2008. / [School of Medicine] Department of Genetics. Includes bibliographical references.
8

Circadian rhythm of the resistance of mice to acute pneumococcal infection /

Mai Wongwiwat. January 1970 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.Sc. in Microbiol.) -- Mahidol University, 1970.
9

The role of mediators of neuronal plasticity in the circadian regulation of suprachiasmatic nucleus by light

Vijayakumar, Sarath. Ding, Jian. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--East Carolina University, 2009. / Presented to the faculty of the Department of Physiology. Advisor: Jian Ding. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 12, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.
10

Neuroimmune modulation of the circadian clock

Beynon, Amy Louise January 2011 (has links)
No description available.

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