Publications

    Alvord VM, Kantra EJ, Pendergast JS (2021). Estrogens and the circadian system. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 126: 56-65.

    Buckley TN, Omotola O, Archer LA, Rostron CR, Kamineni EP, Llanora JD, Chalfant JM, Lei F, Slade E, Pendergast JS (2021). High-fat feeding       

    disrupts daily eating behavior rhythms in obesity-prone but not in obesity-resistant male inbred mouse strains. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp

    Physiol 320(5):R619-R629.

    Chalfant JM, Howatt DA, Tannock LR, Daugherty A, Pendergast JS (2020). Circadian disruption with constant light exposure exacerbates           

    atherosclerosis in male Apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Scientific Reports 10(1): 9920.

    Thomas JM, Kern PA, Bush HM, McQuerry KJ, Black WS, Clasey JL, Pendergast JS (2020). Circadian rhythm phase shifts caused by timed exercise      vary with chronotype. JCI Insight 5(3).

   Omotola O, Legan S, Slade E, Adekunle A, Pendergast JS (2019). Estradiol regulates daily rhythms underlying diet-induced obesity in female mice.       Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 317(6): E1172-E1181.

   Brown AJ, Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S (2019) Peripheral circadian oscillators. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 92(2): 327-335

   Pendergast JS and Yamazaki S (2018) The mysterious food-entrainable oscillator: insights from mutant and engineered mouse models. J Biol             Rhythms 33(5):458-474 

    Pendergast JS, Wendroth RH, Stenner RC, Keil CD, Yamazaki S (2017) mPeriod2Brdm1 and other single Period mutant mice have normal food            anticipatory activity. Scientific Reports 7(1):15510

    BOOK CHAPTER: Pendergast JS and Yamazaki S (2017). Extra-SCN circadian pacemakers. In K. Honma & S. Honma (Eds.), Biological Clocks              (p. 141-152). Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido Univ Press. 

    Palmisano BT, Stafford JM, Pendergast JS (2017) High-fat feeding does not disrupt daily rhythms in female mice because of protection by                    ovarian hormones. Frontiers in Endocrinology 8:44

    Shi S, White MJ, Borsetti HM, Pendergast JS, Hida A, Ciarleglio C, deVerteuil PA, Cadar AG, Cala C, McMahon DG, Shelton RC, Williams SM,                Johnson CH (2016) Molecular analyses of circadian gene variants reveal sex-dependent links between depression and clocks. Translational                  Psychiatry 6:e748

    Branecky KL, Niswender KD, Pendergast JS (2015) Disruption of daily rhythms by high-fat diet is reversible. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137970.

    Veatch OJ, Pendergast JS, Allen MJ, Leu RM, Johnson CH, Elsea SH, Malow BA (2015) Genetic variation in melatonin pathway enzymes in                    children with autism spectrum disorder and comorbid sleep onset delay. J Autism Dev Disord 45(1): 100-110.

    Chen Z, Guo L, Zhang Y, L Walzem R, Pendergast JS, Printz RL, Morris LC, Matafonova E, Stien X, Kang L, Coulon D, McGuinness OP,                        Niswender KD, Davies SS (2014) Incorporation of therapeutically modified bacteria into gut microbiota inhibits obesity. J Clin Invest              

    124(8):3391-3406. 

    Pendergast JS, Braneck KL, Huang R, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S (2014) Wheel-running activity modulates circadian organization and the    

    daily rhythm of eating behavior. Front Psychol 5:177. 

    Pendergast JS and Yamazaki S (2014) Effects of light, food, and methamphetamine on the circadian activity rhythm in mice. Physiol Behav

    128: 92-98. 

    Pendergast JS, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S (2013) The complex relationship between the food-entrainable and methamphetamine-sensitive

    circadian oscillators: Evidence from behavioral studies of Period mutant mice. Eur J Neurosci 38(7): 3044-3053. 

    Takasu NN, Pendergast JS, Olivas CS, Yamazaki S, Nakamura W (2013) In vivo monitoring of multi-unit neural activity in the

    suprachiasmatic nucleus reveals robust circadian rhythms in Period1-/- mice. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64333.

    Pendergast JS, Branecky KL, Yang W, Ellacott KL, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S (2013) High-fat diet acutely affects circadian organisation and

    eating behavior. Eur J Neurosci 37(8): 1350-6. 

    Pendergast JS, Oda GA, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S (2012) Period determination in the food –entrainable and methamphetamine-sensitive

    circadian oscillator(s). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(35):14218-23.

    Pendergast JS and Yamazaki S (2012) The mammalian circadian system is resistant to dioxin. J Biol Rhythms 27(2):156-63. 

    Pendergast JS, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S (2012) Tissue-specific function of Period3 in circadian rhythmicity. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30254.

   Pendergast JS and Yamazaki S (2011) Masking responses to light in Period mutant mice. Chronobiol Int 28(8): 657-63. 

    Um J-H, Pendergast JS, Springer DA, Foretz M, Viollet B, Brown A, Kim MK, Yamazaki S, Chung JH (2011) AMPK regulates circadian rhythms

    in vivo in an isoform-specific manner. PLoS ONE 6(3):e18450.

    Pendergast JS, Yeom M, Reyes BA, Ohmiya Y, Yamazaki S (2010) Disconnected circadian and cell cycles in a tumor-driven cell line.

    Communicative & Integrative Biol 3(6): 1-4.

    Pendergast JS, Friday RC, Yamazaki S (2010) Photic entrainment of Period mutant mice is predicted from their phase response curves. J

    Neurosci 30(36): 12179-84.

    Yeom M, Pendergast JS, Ohmiya Y, Yamazaki S (2010) Circadian-independent cell mitosis in immortalized fibroblasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci    

    USA 107(21): 9665-70.

    Pendergast JS, Friday RC, Yamazaki S (2010) Distinct functions of Period2 and Period3 in the mouse circadian system revealed by in vitro

    analysis. PLos ONE 5(1): e8552.

    Pendergast JS, Friday RC, Yamazaki S (2009) Endogenous rhythms in Period1 mutant suprachiasmatic nuclei in vitro do not represent

    circadian behavior. J Neurosci 29(46): 14681-6. 

    Pendergast JS, Nakamura W, Friday RC, Hatanaka F, Takumi T, Yamazaki S (2009) Robust food anticipatory activity in BMAL1-deficient

    mice. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4860.

    Mistlberger, RE, Yamazaki S, Pendergast JS, Landry, GJ, Takumi, T, Nakamura, W (2008) Comment on “Differential rescue of light- and

    food-entrainable circadian rhythms.” Science 322: 675.

    Pendergast JS, Tuesta LM, and Bethea JR (2008) Estrogen receptor beta contributes to the transient sex difference in tyrosine hydroxylase

    expression in the mouse locus coeruleus. J Neuroendocrinology 10: 1155-64.

    Kusanagi H, Hida A, Satoh K, Echizenya M, Shimizu T, Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S, Mishima K (2008) Expression profiles of ten circadian

    clock genes in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Neuroscience Research 61(2): 136-42.

    Reyes BA, Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S (2008) Mammalian peripheral circadian oscillators are temperature compensated. J Biol Rhythms

    23(1): 95-8.

    Hu WH*, Pendergast JS*, Mo XM, Brambilla R, Bracchi-Ricard V, Li, F, Walters WM, Blits B, He L, Schaal SM, and Bethea JR (2005) NIBP, a

    novel NIK and IKK-beta binding protein that enhances NF-kappaB activation. J Biol Chem 280(32): 29233-41.

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