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BACKGROUND: Chronobiology is the scientific field focused on studying periodicity in biological processes. In mammals, most physiological variables exhibit circadian rhythmicity, such as metabolism, body temperature, locomotor activity, and sleep. The biological rhythmicity can be statistically evaluated by examining the time series and extracting parameters that correlate to the period of oscillation, its amplitude, phase displacement, and overall variability. NEW METHOD: We have developed a library called CircadiPy, which encapsulates methods for chronobiological analysis and data inspection, serving as an open-access toolkit for the analysis and interpretation of chronobiological data. The package was designed to be flexible, comprehensive and scalable in order to assist research dealing with processes affected or influenced by rhythmicity. RESULTS: The results demonstrate the toolkit's capability to guide users in analyzing chronobiological data collected from various recording sources, while also providing precise parameters related to the circadian rhythmicity. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS: The analysis methodology from this proposed library offers an opportunity to inspect and obtain chronobiological parameters in a straightforward and cost-free manner, in contrast to commercial tools. CONCLUSIONS: Moreover, being an open-source tool, it empowers the community with the opportunity to contribute with new functions, analysis methods, and graphical visualizations given the simplified computational method of time series data analysis using an easy and comprehensive pipeline within a single Python object.
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Ritmo Circadiano , Software , Animais , Ritmo Circadiano/fisiologia , Fenômenos Cronobiológicos/fisiologia , Humanos , Fatores de Tempo , Cronobiologia/métodosRESUMO
La cronobiología es la disciplina que ha estudiado la organización temporal de los procesos que ocurren en los seres vivos, los mecanismos que las originan y sus alteraciones. En 1832, Agustín de Candolle demostró que bajo condiciones constantes el período de los ciclos de movimientos de las plantas duraba unas 24 horas, con lo que añadió una evidencia de la naturaleza endógena de los ritmos biológicos. En los mamíferos, se ha estimado que aproximadamente el 10 por ciento del genoma está bajo un control circadiano. Desde la década de los años 70´s se observó que la respuesta inmune dependía de la hora del día en la cual se analizaba y que la susceptibilidad a las infecciones dependía también de la hora en la cual el organismo fuera infectado. Recientemente se ha establecido una relación entre el ciclo circadiano y la respuesta inmune. Este trabajo trata las ventajas del conocimiento del ritmo circadiana de los mecanismos inmunitarios y la importancia del uso de la cronoterapia sobre los osciladores de las células del sistema inmune en los trastornos inmunitarios, lo cual pudiera evitar complicaciones en los pacientes(AU)
Chronobiology is the science that studies temporary organization of the processes that happen in organisms, the mechanisms that originate them and its disorders. Austin of Candolle demonstrated that under constant conditions the period of the cycles of the plants' movements it lasted some 24 hour, adding an evidence of the endogenous nature of the biological rhythms in 1832. In mammals, has been considered approximately 10 percent of genome under circadian control. Since decade of 70´s, was observed that immune response depends of day´s hours in which it was analyzed, and the susceptibility to infections also depends of the hour in which an organism is infected. It has begun to establish relationship between circadian cycle and immune response recently. This work intends to give us the advantages of the knowledge of circadian rhythms of immune mechanisms and the importance of the chronotherapy´s use on the oscillators of the immune system´s cells in immunity dysfunctions and it would avoid complications in the patients(AU)