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Circadian biology

How does food reset the liver clock?

Landgraf D, Tsang AH, Leliavski A, et al. · eLife · 2015

Open access · cc by · source: Europe PMC

The gut incretin oxyntomodulin (OXM) links food intake to resetting of the hepatic circadian clock and metabolism.

Study at a glance

Design
Animal / in-vitro — Organotypic liver-slice and in-vivo assays of food-related OXM as a liver-clock Zeitgeber
N
Mouse liver-clock resetting experiments — no single primary analytic N in stored text
Population
Mouse liver tissue/slices and related in-vivo models
Outcome
Hepatic circadian clock resetting by oxyntomodulin

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Key findings

OXM can couple food intake to hepatic clock resetting; eating in the rest phase risks internal circadian desynchrony relevant to shiftwork metabolism.

Methodology

Investigated food-related Zeitgebers for peripheral clocks and identified OXM as a candidate signal from gut to liver clock resetting.

Limitations

Not a human shiftwork clinical trial; glucose-dependent hormones are not the only food cues.

How this study connects

Role on claims

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  • SupportsCircadian biologyconcept

    Multiple empirical papers in this library examine circadian biology with mechanistic biological findings.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • SupportsCircadian biologyconcept

    OXM can couple food intake to hepatic clock resetting; eating in the rest phase risks internal circadian desynchrony relevant to shiftwork metabolism.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

  • SupportsCircadian biologyconcept

    Systems and scales differ across circadian biology studies (species, tissues, methods), so mechanisms should not be over-generalised.

    Evidence for the claim as stated.

Open questions

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