Timna Hitrec

Differential Effects of Sex and Age on Daily and Infradian Rhythms of Mice Running Title: Sex and Age Differences in Mouse Rhythms

This study examines how sex and age affect circadian and infradian rhythms in mice, finding sex- and age-specific differences in activity patterns and physiological responses to isolation.

Synthetic torpor in the rat protects the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury

This study induces synthetic torpor in rats and shows it reduces heart damage from ischaemia-reperfusion injury by ~40%.

Food-entrainment of circadian timekeeping in the dorsal vagal complex

The paper shows that the dorsal vagal complex has circadian rhythms regulated by meal timing, with clock genes and their targets expressed rhythmically in vivo.

Synthetic torpor triggers a neuroprotective and regulated mechanism in the rat brain, favoring the reversibility of Tau protein hyperphosphorylation.

The paper investigates how synthetic torpor induces reversible Tau hyperphosphorylation in rats, revealing a regulated neuroprotective mechanism involving metabolic and inflammatory changes.

Neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus promote, prolong, and deepen torpor

This study identifies DMH neurons active during torpor in mice and shows they promote and prolong torpor, but are not sufficient for its initiation.